From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <19340818034744.27131@192.168.1.10> References: <19340818034744.27131@192.168.1.10> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 13:23:08 -0700 To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , From: "Timothy A. Seufert" Subject: Re: MacOS X and yaboot wars. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: At 12:16 PM +0200 9/23/00, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >> >>Interestingly enough, I noticed this tidbit in their BootX script: >> >>------------------------------------------- >>if 0 0 then >> >> >>------------------------------------------- >> >>Implying that they may be doing something with ext2 support. > >You "tidbit" was empty ;) It sure didn't look that way when I wrote it in Eudora! And in fact it made it through to Ethan Benson, who was CC'ed. Maybe the mailing list software mangled it. Bizarre. >They have indeed ext2 support in their "BootX". They have ELF support. >They have almost everything needed to boot the Linux kernel as well. I >need to implement the necessary support in the kernel itself to get it >working. Cool! Do you know if their "BootX" is under their open source license? Tim Seufert ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/