Subject: Re: ofwboot.elf
To: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 07/11/2001 01:38:09
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Bill Studenmund 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.
> 
> Right, the same big hill that prevens us from running on pre-OFW PowerMacs.
> By "screwed", I meant in the context of our in kernel OFW-based device
> information retrieval, to which you referred.


Just to clarify something about this.  Is this in anyway a proposal to 
remove NetBSD's ability to chat (via callbacks) to OF devices once the 
kernel is up and running?

	Andrew