From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <383A716F.D020496C@fadata.bg> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 12:50:23 +0200 From: Momchil Velikov MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt CC: Cort Dougan , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, paulus@linuxcare.com Subject: Re: bootloader & head.S weirdness References: <19991123113504.011766@mailhost.mipsys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 22, 1999, Cort Dougan wrote: > > >CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org > >---------- > >Not always. Keep in mind we have several machine types that follow the > >same patch there. We don't always enter with OF and OF doesn't always give > >1:1 mappings, either. > > Yes, I agree. but I beleive the piece of bootloader appended to the head > of the kernel image or the early bootloader used (quik ?) should take > care of those very weird case and of mapping the kernel 1:1 before > entering it. Please, excuse my ignorance, but why not just set real-mode OF variable to true (maybe in the ELF .note section) ? Regards, -velco ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/