From: David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com>
To: Dave Weis <djweis@plconline.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: modifying boot loader
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 18:49:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9903292349.AA49680@marc.watson.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Dave Weis <djweis@plconline.com> of "Mon, 29 Mar 1999 17:38:36 CST." <Pine.LNX.3.95.990329173630.305A-100000@catbert.desm.plconline.com>
>>>>> Dave Weis writes:
Dave> linuxppc on a mca based rs6000. any pointers? :-) i have figured out that
Dave> when you hit start on the kernel, either r3 or r4 will point to an ipl_cb.
Dave> can you disclose if the boot loader looks for the symbol named start or
Dave> address 0x24?
Are you sure the machine in question actually is a PowerPC system
as opposed to a POWER architecture RS/6000. LinuxPPC will not run on
POWER architecture as LinuxPPC uses PowerPC instructions and memory
management is different.
The pre-PREP / pre-CHRP RS/6000 loaders are extremely simplistic,
but I do not know the details. If it understands XCOFF, then it might
look at the entry point for the "application" in the header to know the
starting address.
David
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-03-29 23:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-03-29 21:48 modifying boot loader Dave Weis
1999-03-29 23:36 ` David Edelsohn
1999-03-29 23:38 ` Dave Weis
1999-03-29 23:49 ` David Edelsohn [this message]
1999-03-30 3:05 ` Dave Weis
1999-03-30 4:05 ` David Edelsohn
1999-03-30 4:25 ` Dave Weis
1999-03-30 8:13 ` Gabriel Paubert
1999-03-30 14:51 ` David A. Gatwood
1999-03-31 7:12 ` Erik Karlberg
1999-03-30 9:38 ` Gary Thomas
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-03-30 9:52 Andrew J Benie
1999-03-30 14:12 ` Norman R Weathers
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