From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Booting homebrew ELF kernel on NewWorld OpenFirmware 3.0?
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:08:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051010080833.GA16728@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DFC6AEC1-38E1-4092-B565-0D03AC2D6FA8@gmail.com>
On Sun, Oct 09, Andrei Warkentin wrote:
> I trying to cobble together a simple Hello World ``kernel'' on the
> mac, and have a question concerning the booting specifics. I
> understand that OF 3.0 groks ELF, but the ELF file should contain
> some special information in the note section (and have the PT_NOTE
> thing). This special information entails the values for load-base and
> real-base (among other things) that are to be used. Here is where I
> become confused.
Noone except IBM CHRP cares about the PT_NOTE.
Proof: yaboot doesnt have one, and yaboot works fine for everyone.
--
short story of a lazy sysadmin:
alias appserv=wotan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-10 8:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-10 2:28 Booting homebrew ELF kernel on NewWorld OpenFirmware 3.0? Andrei Warkentin
2005-10-10 8:08 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2005-10-10 15:03 ` Andrei Warkentin
2005-10-10 22:01 ` Olaf Hering
2005-10-15 22:35 ` Andrei Warkentin
2005-10-16 16:19 ` Hollis Blanchard
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