Subject: Re: Booting an OF 1.0.5
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@zembu.com>
From: Dan Winship <danw@helixcode.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 06/15/2000 21:07:50
> None of teh NetBSD folks know the BootX interface well enough to comment.
> A concerted effort should start with trying to understand what BootX does
> now. :-)

I looked at it once.

The big trick is that if you boot from BootX, you have no interface to
OF (but it hands you a copy of the OF device tree to look at), so any
NetBSD code that uses OF after autoconf time needs to be rewritten to
do direct hardware access instead.

In particular, this means video.

-- Dan