Subject: RE: ofwboot.elf
To: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@zembu.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 07/10/2001 18:16:37
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Todd Vierling wrote:

> However, if you mean "uses the OF callbacks to get system hardware info,"
> and BootX doesn't allow that, I guess we're screwed.

Maybe not screwed, just looking at a big hill. I think what mklinux (and
maybe this booter too) does is make a device tree in memory, and go from
there. If we did that, we could do w/o the callbacks. While not
necessarily easy to do, it is also what we'll have to do to get NetBSD
running on the NuBus machines (where we just make a fake device tree
showing what's there). So there's a double bennefit from doing it.

Take care,

Bill