From: David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com>
To: Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: imac of booting
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 11:22:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9905111522.AA48044@marc.watson.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org> of "Tue, 11 May 1999 01:36:38 PDT." <v04204e08b35d9989574a@[206.163.71.146]>
>>>>> Joel Klecker writes:
Joel> At 19:59 -0400 1999-05-10, Ben Martz wrote:
>> Stupid question maybe but I can't find a definitive answer. Can I boot
>> linuxppc from OF on my iMac? Does the elf loader in OF work?
Joel> The ELF loader in OF does work (part of the Mac OS boot process uses
Joel> it in fact), however it does not like Linux kernel ELF images.
Joel> Until someone figures out the problem and fixes it, the answer is no.
CHRP does not want just an ELF image, but an ELF image with a CHRP
"note" section. The note section describes where to load the image,
whether the image is running real or virtual, and how to instantiate OF.
NetBSD has more details about this for their macppc port. Cort may
already have addressed some of this for the CHRP-based RS/6000 port work.
CHRP looks for a PT_NOTE section in the loader header and then
specific magic values in the section itself.
David
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-05-10 23:59 imac of booting Ben Martz
1999-05-11 8:36 ` Joel Klecker
1999-05-11 15:22 ` David Edelsohn [this message]
1999-05-11 16:47 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
1999-05-11 17:44 ` Anyone playing with Darwin 0.2 binary yet? Kevin B. Hendricks
1999-05-11 18:47 ` Nathan Ingersoll
1999-05-11 21:00 ` Roger Ivie
1999-05-11 22:15 ` David A. Gatwood
[not found] ` <v04011701b35e71c158ed@[199.174.98.46]>
1999-05-12 14:50 ` New PPC/Mac features of 2.2.8? Jason Haas
1999-05-12 18:21 ` Matt Porter
1999-05-12 19:41 ` Tom Rini
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-05-12 19:33 imac of booting Ben Martz
1999-12-27 3:04 DB_THREAD support in Berkeley DB/glibc Troy Benjegerdes
1999-12-28 7:59 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
1999-12-28 17:53 ` Joel Klecker
1999-12-28 19:02 ` David Edelsohn
1999-12-28 21:22 ` BenH
1999-12-28 22:05 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
1999-12-28 22:28 ` David Edelsohn
1999-12-28 23:21 ` Tony Mantler
1999-12-29 0:15 ` David Edelsohn
1999-12-29 0:54 ` Geoff Keating
1999-12-29 1:01 ` David Edelsohn
1999-12-28 23:52 ` Geoff Keating
1999-12-29 0:21 ` David Edelsohn
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