From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 11 Apr 02 10:25:42 PDT From: msokolov@ivan.Harhan.ORG (Michael Sokolov) Message-Id: <0204111725.AA28986@ivan.Harhan.ORG> To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: CONFIG_GENERIC_PPC32 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Tom Rini wrote: > Then get an OF license I'm sure most customers would appreciate a lower price for boards without OF license costs. I also claim that StarMON is better than OF. > yaboot > will Just Work and booting from CD will probably just work too. I plan to write ybboot that will do for PPCStar what yaboot does for OF. Then I'll just need to convince Debian to include ybboot in addition to yaboot, which I hope won't be too hard as it's a really tiny and non-invasive bit. > That's a rather large exageration. If a vendor doesn't test their > distribution on a model but is going to claim it works, it's going to > upset someone when they find out it doesn't. Of course it must be tested. But it should be one distribution, not 20 slightly different, identical-except-for-one-byte-machine-code ones. Testing will be a lot easier this way too. > Did you have to strip the ELF header off or no? I just loaded the zImage file as it was generated at 0x7F0000 so that the actual code ended up at 0x800000, and started it at 0x800000. MS ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/