Subject: Re: ofwboot.elf
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Phil Frost <daboy@xgs.dyn.dhs.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 07/10/2001 20:43:29
I'd just like to say that if you can get netbsd running on my pb1400 with
pcmcia ethernet I'll give you my soul, maybe even buy you a drink...

On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 06:16:37PM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> 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
>