From: Remco Post <r.post@sara.nl>
To: Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] A stand-alone boot loader for PReP
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 10:26:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030602102634.00cdf985.r.post@sara.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030601221249.GQ32642@plato.local.lan>
On Sun, 1 Jun 2003 14:12:49 -0800
Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 02:57:07PM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote:
> > Unfortunately I think a PReP boot loader is largely orthogonal to an
> > OF based loader. Even PReP boxes that have OF don't support enough
> > services for yaboot (in any form) to work. Most PReP boxes don't have
> > OF or even allow any firmware calls from within the boot loader. With
> > PReP everything you need to bring up the O/S has to be held on the
> > boot partition and loaded into memory at boot time.
>
> then why do you have a of1275 interface in your loader?
>
> basically prep OF is more broken then apple's oldworld? now thats
> impressive...
>
Well, I happen to own a motorola powerstack 2, I don't think there is
anything to do with OF in there....
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-31 20:36 [RFC] A stand-alone boot loader for PReP Leigh Brown
2003-05-31 21:49 ` Ethan Benson
2003-06-01 13:57 ` Leigh Brown
2003-06-01 22:12 ` Ethan Benson
2003-06-02 8:26 ` Remco Post [this message]
2003-06-02 17:40 ` Tom Rini
2003-06-03 6:43 ` Ethan Benson
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