From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 14:35:33 +1000 Message-Id: <199908240435.OAA05026@tango.anu.edu.au> From: Paul Mackerras To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org In-reply-to: <19990823163610.A31129@mango.genunix.net> (message from anthony tong on Mon, 23 Aug 1999 16:36:10 -0500) Subject: Re: BootX enhancement request Reply-to: Paul.Mackerras@cs.anu.edu.au References: <19990823163610.A31129@mango.genunix.net> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: anthony tong wrote: > If you have a version of MacOS that saves the monitor mode in nvram, > you shouldn't need to give any kernel arguments. Alternatively you > can use the linuxpmac tool nvvideo to set this. Yep. There are two problems at the moment, which I should get off my butt and fix. :-) The first is that the current machines use a different structure for nvram, based on the CHRP spec, which means that just using a fixed offset in nvram doesn't work. In fact it seems like macos adds a OF property with a really strange encoding to store arbitrary bits of information for the device drivers for arbitrary devices. The second is that macos is now using mode numbers > 20. I haven't worked out the correspondence yet. Paul. [[ 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. ]]