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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <bh40@calva.net>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: research for a new booting mechanism
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 15:18:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990719151821.016699@mail.mipsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19990716155150.A12541@drow.res.cmu.edu>


On Fri, Jul 16, 1999, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:

>The question, it seems to me, is what sort of state the OS is in when
>this happens.  Is Open Firmware still mapped in, or does the Apple ROM
>unmap it?  It should be possible to use this in either case, although
>if it is unmapped, it would be more like running BootX (whose source I
>have not yet actually looked at).

Hum, the explanation looks stange. This boot mecanism is the "old" 68k
based mecanism, I don't really see how this could boot quik ppc code. I
beleive that using MacOS X System Disk just setup OF to boot quik, but I
don't think this is in any way related to those 68k stuffs.

I don't know if this boot-block mecanism is still supported, but it would
be interesting to try to put pieces of BootX there.


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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-07-16 18:28 research for a new booting mechanism James S Lande
1999-07-16 19:51 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
1999-07-19 13:18   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]

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