From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <9911022024.AA40132@marc.watson.ibm.com> To: "Florent" Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Newworld OF boot In-Reply-To: Message from "Florent" of "Tue, 02 Nov 1999 19:32:19 +0100." <381f2fd9382470a6@villosa.wanadoo.fr>.(added.by.villosa.wanadoo.fr) Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 15:24:37 -0500 From: David Edelsohn Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: I have seen documentation about OF accepting XCOFF, but I am not sure exactly how it is suppose to work. I assume that the XCOFF image needs something equivalent to the ELF OF note section to specify loading parameters. I have not heard of a FreeBSD PowerPC port, but NetBSD does have a Mac PowerPC port. NetBSD seems to create an OF note section. The last I checked, Linux/PPC creates an ELF kernel which it then prepends an XCOFF header for PreP booting, and then there seemed to be some work to package the XCOFF image within an ELF header again. If someone added a correct OF note section to the first ELF executable, Mac OF should be happy. The necessary pieces have been described numerous times in this mailinglist, but everyone seems to be infatuated with Rube Goldberg solutions. David ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/