Subject: Re: Kernel Start-up Question
To: None <ijonglin@EE.Princeton.EDU>
From: Ken Nakata <kenn@synap.ne.jp>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/26/1998 09:48:09
On Tue, 25 Aug 98 20:07:42 EDT, I-Jong Lin wrote:
> Whoa.  That would simplify things greatly if I could boot w/
> the MMU off because the problem is that two boots actually need to occur.  
> When the NetBSD booter starts the NetBSD kernel, the accelerator turns off 
> and the '030 starts to boot.  By poking a particular memory location, the
> '030 is switched off, '040 switches on and starts up on the reset
> vector at a vector table which is located at memory location 0.

Well, if it's coming out of reset exception, I'd bet my 2 cents that
MMU is off.

Ken