Subject: Re: ofwboot.xcf issues
To: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
From: Lars Nordlund <lars.nordlund@hem.utfors.se>
List: port-macppc
Date: 11/28/2003 00:10:39
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 12:32:13AM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> In article <20031127044832.GH7092@netbsd.org>
> wrstuden@netbsd.org wrote:
> 
> > I'm looking into the ofwboot issues, and I'm wondering what exactly people
> > are seeing? What is going wrong, and what version of OF are you using?
> 
> Current GENERIC kernel is ~5MB, so it seems ofwboot could not load it
> if RELOC (and DEFAULT_ENTRY_POINT in bootxx.c) is 0x600000.

So it depends on the size after all? I have to try a smaller kernel as
soon as I can find time.

How is Darwin getting around this issue? Micro-kernel design with
everything as loadable modules?

Does it matter if the kernel is gzipped or not?


Best regards
	Lars Nordlund