From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 18:14:08 +0200 To: a sun , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: BootX 1.0.3b2 Message-Id: <19990411181408.020170@mail.mipsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: I've uploaded BootX 1.0.3b2 to my web page. It contains more "DMA shutdown" fixes, some source code cleanups, and preliminary support for NuBus machines so adrian can begin working on them. There's a kernel patch available at which updates bootx.h along with minor changes to prom.c. The patch was made against today's vger tree and could be merged in vger without harm. I tested the NuBus stuff on an old performa I have here. There kernel is loaded at 0x200000 (phys) and entered with MMU off. I don't have a nubus machine with video in DRAM so I can't test if remapping of this works. The code for it is quick&dirty anyway, I'll clean this up later. Look at bootx.h for details about infos passed to the kernel on the nubus (basically, the device tree is gone, the phys mem map is added, along with the machineID (from gestalt)). Current kernels will boot until the HW intialisation begins. At this point, it crashes, and that's normal since it expects a PCI machine. The early boot text (prom_printf) works, the initial message is correctly displayed (the above patch adds more infos). -- 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. Please check http://lists.linuxppc.org/ ]] [[ and http://www.linuxppc.org/ for useful information before posting. ]]