From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA27300 for ; Thu, 6 May 1999 11:44:14 -0600 Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 11:42:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Jason Eckhardt Message-Id: <199905061842.LAA11719@gatekeeper.equator.com> To: adevries@redhat.com Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] ld problem workaround Cc: jason@gatekeeper.equator.com, parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com List-ID: > On Thu, 6 May 1999, Philipp Rumpf wrote: > > > > Where are the bootloader sources atm ? > > > > Jason's sources are at: > > ftp://puffin.external.hp.com/pub/parisc/src/boot_rel_0.2.tar.gz > > I'm not quite sure how complete they are. The pain is that because of our > lack of ELF32 in binutils these really need to be linked on an HPUX box. > The source is fairly complete in the sense that the bootstrap can load a kernel image and transfer control to it. If we had a linux kernel, it could be booted today. The source can also be considered less than complete in that it just reads the kernel from a fixed location on the media -- for simplicity, to get linux up and running. Alex and chris have suggested (and this was a thought all along) to have the booter load the kernel from an ext2 file system. With more time, that can be done. It's a bit painful since it involves a stand alone extfs (read only) implementation. Hopefully, we can re-use much of the standard linux code, but I haven't thought about this in detail yet. Jason.