Subject: RE: ofwboot.elf
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Hayden, Bill <BHayden@Exchange.WebMD.net>
List: port-macppc
Date: 07/11/2001 13:26:14
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
> > Ok, I don't want to loose the ability to write OF based 
> device drivers.
> 
> Unfortunatly the problem is that Apple considers OF as a way 
> to boot the
> computer, not run it. So there will be times when an OF-based NetBSD
> driver won't work. :-(

I have to agree wholeheartedly here.  Using OF in a post-boot environment is
a (occasionally very useful) crutch that would be better to lose in the long
run.

Bill Hayden