Subject: Re: Booting an OF 1.0.5
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: None <andy@softbook.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 06/15/2000 18:20:57
BTW, the latest Linux docs recommend to use yaboot instead of BootX on
newer macs..
Just FYI

Andy


>> 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