From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 10:54:18 +0100 To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, Geert Uytterhoeven From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: Restructure of arch/ppc/kernel and include/asm-ppc Message-Id: <19981214105418.022383@mail.mipsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Sun, Dec 13, 1998, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >For PPC, we would need different MILO images for the different machine types. >The kernel can be ELF on all machine types, since we put an ELF loader in >MILO. >MILO doesn't need much fancy driver stuff, just SCSI/IDE, floppy, keyboard and >a simple console (serial, VGA text, offb). And BootX can become some special >variant of MILO :-) This could be a good idea since it would fix a big outstanding issue: The inability of MacOS VM to lock contiguously enough space for the kernel and ramdisk in lots of cases (the -622 error most people with virtual memory ON are experiencing). If the booter was itself a nini-kernel that takes care of further loading of the real kernel and ramdisk, this issue would probably disappear. Another thing that Paul and I are trying to define and implement: A way to completely boot from a disk image on the HFS volume (and eventually use this image as the read/write root volume). This would allow installations of Linux on top of macos without reformatting & repartitioning the hard disk. -- E-Mail: BenH. Web : [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. To unsubscribe from linuxppc-dev, send ]] [[ the message 'unsubscribe' to linuxppc-dev-request@lists.linuxppc.org ]]