From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 In-Reply-To: <19990716155150.A12541@drow.res.cmu.edu> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 15:18:21 +0200 To: Daniel Jacobowitz , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: research for a new booting mechanism Message-Id: <19990719151821.016699@mail.mipsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Fri, Jul 16, 1999, Daniel Jacobowitz 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. -- Perso. e-mail: Work 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. ]]