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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <bh40@calva.net>
To: Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: New booter
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 11:18:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990914111817.004706@mailhost.mipsys.com> (raw)


On Mon, Sep 13, 1999, Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> wrote:

>>What a week, quik got fixed, AND a new booter for OF-deficient machines to
>>free them from needing MacOS just to bootstrap Linux!
>
>quik is not fixed totally, the first stage loader still does not work 
>on newworld macs, unless anyone has some suggestions...

I agree this is not perfect, but as I wrote you privately, we can still
use a small HFS partition with the second stage bootstrap beeing directly
loaded by OF. This works now, I tested it last week. Not perfect, but
better than BootX for those machine since the kernel will now be able to
use RTAS ;-)

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             reply	other threads:[~1999-09-14  9:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-09-14  9:18 Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
1999-09-14  9:28 ` New booter Ethan Benson
     [not found] <199909170500.AAA08016@lists.linuxppc.org>
1999-09-17 16:07 ` Derek Homeier
1999-09-18 12:58   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
     [not found] <v04011701b404e6cd4493@[199.174.193.101]>
     [not found] ` <v04210105b404ed46f043@[192.168.0.1]>
1999-09-15  9:39   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
1999-09-15  9:58     ` Ethan Benson
1999-09-15 17:53       ` Kevyn Shortell
1999-09-15 18:03         ` David A. Gatwood
1999-09-15 22:40           ` Ethan Benson
1999-09-15 22:56             ` Tom Rini
1999-09-15 23:03             ` Dan Burcaw
1999-09-15 22:37         ` Ethan Benson
1999-09-15 23:02           ` Peter Bierman
1999-09-16  3:18             ` Ethan Benson
1999-09-16  3:37               ` David D. Kilzer
1999-09-15 23:10           ` Wolfgang Denk
1999-09-16  8:16             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
1999-09-16  8:38               ` Ethan Benson
1999-09-16 10:47               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
1999-09-16 17:01               ` David A. Gatwood
1999-09-16 18:48               ` Michel Lanners
1999-09-15 23:15           ` erik cameron
1999-09-16  3:50             ` Ethan Benson
1999-09-16  4:21               ` Dan Burcaw
1999-09-15 17:22   ` David A. Gatwood
1999-09-15 22:41     ` Ethan Benson
1999-09-15 17:39   ` Peter Bierman
1999-09-15 22:27     ` Ethan Benson
1999-09-15 22:47       ` David N. Welton
1999-09-15 23:01         ` Dan Burcaw
1999-09-15 22:48       ` Peter Bierman
1999-09-15 23:19         ` Ethan Benson
1999-09-15 23:48           ` Tom Rini
1999-09-16  0:23             ` David A. Gatwood
1999-09-16  4:02               ` Sean
1999-09-16  5:42                 ` David A. Gatwood
1999-09-16  3:59             ` Ethan Benson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-09-14  9:37 Ethan Benson
1999-09-14  9:10 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
1999-09-13 20:37 Kevin Puetz
1999-09-13 22:08 ` Ethan Benson
     [not found] <19990913192231.002595>
1999-09-13 17:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
1999-09-13 19:51   ` Andreas Bogk
1999-09-13 18:12     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
1999-09-13 17:22 Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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