Re: ofwboot, why does it work?

[Frank Wille <frank%phoenix.owl.de@localhost>]

Artyom Tarasenko wrote:

> Not just you. :-) But I thought IBM Firmware was based on the
> FirmWorks firmware, so it should have exposed the bug...

Maybe anybody with IBM hardware reads this and tests the latest ofwboot for
us.


>> Usually only a single block with 512 bytes is read into 'buf', so it
>> uses the memory region only up to 0x1ff5c.
>
> What is the advantage of using a larger 'buf', btw?

As far as I remember, I had to extend the block-buffer for reading the RDB
partition table. The Amiga disk format allows block sizes up to 64K.

-- 
Frank Wille