From: "Jerry Quinn" <jquinn@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Tom Rini <tmrini@ntplx.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <bh40@calva.net>, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: OF booting news
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 10:49:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3742CF84.3A348038@americasm01.nt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.SUN.4.02.9905190926070.19636-100000@sea.ntplx.net
Tom Rini wrote:
>
> On Wed, 19 May 1999, Jerry Quinn wrote:
>
> > Umm, any news about Platinum drivers? Otherwise, a revised loader still
> > wouldn't be very useful on 7200 class machines.
>
> There were many of patches in there. I wasn't aware the 7200 OF was
> broken. The source is the boot part of darwin, in SecondaryLoader, iirc.
I think the issue is that there isn't an OF driver at all for the
platinum controller. With the old OF booting through quik, nothing
could display on the screen until linux took control, which was one
reason why BootX is a huge improvement (as is MkBooter for mklinux).
Unless I'm getting the issues wrong (always a possibility :-)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-05-19 14:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-05-15 8:09 OF booting news Benjamin Herrenschmidt
1999-05-18 13:17 ` Tom Rini
1999-05-19 13:09 ` Jerry Quinn
1999-05-19 13:27 ` Tom Rini
1999-05-19 14:49 ` Jerry Quinn [this message]
1999-05-20 8:42 ` Remco Post
1999-05-20 17:06 ` Jerry Quinn
1999-05-20 18:39 ` Martin Costabel
1999-05-31 11:43 ` Philipp Tomsich
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