From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3742CF84.3A348038@americasm01.nt.com> Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 10:42:12 +0200 (MET DST) From: Remco Post To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: OF booting news Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On 19-May-99 Jerry Quinn wrote: > > 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). > BootX is a huge improvement if you like waiting for a machine to boot and have an option. Quik is still my favourite since I never boot MacOS on my 7200. Having to install my kernel on a MacOS partition was another thing I disliked about BootX (that may have changed by now....) > Unless I'm getting the issues wrong (always a possibility :-) > > -- > Jerry Quinn ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Remco Post Date: 20-May-99 Time: 10:29:10 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- [[ 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. ]]