From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3742B7FE.9F30D222@americasm01.nt.com> Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 09:09:18 -0400 From: "Jerry Quinn" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Rini CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: OF booting news References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Tom Rini wrote: > > On Sat, 15 May 1999, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > For those who haven't seen it yet, with Darwin 0.2, Apple release new > > pieces of source code, including the secondary loader, with sources, a > > working of control video driver, and more... That's interesting because > > we should now be able to make a great secondary booter with OS choosing > > capabilities. I don't have time to look into this now, but this could be > > a good replacement for BootX in the future. > > It looks like most part of the MkL booter were canablized in this as well. > So it should be possible to do the following, with a little work: > On old (not New World) ROMs, choose between: MacOS, LinuxPPC, MkL (little > bit of work on their end?), possibly BeOS, *BSD, and and OSX. On New > World, most of that is possible (some problem OF booting LPPC right now, > and No MacOS (w/o lots of work).) All that's really missing from it right > now is some graphical part I think. There's a routine to draw the OSX > logo tho. :) Umm, any news about Platinum drivers? Otherwise, a revised loader still wouldn't be very useful on 7200 class machines. -- Jerry Quinn Tel: (514) 761-8737 jquinn@nortelnetworks.com Fax: (514) 761-8505 Speech Recognition Research [[ 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. ]]