Subject: Re: The next step in PowerPC renovation
To: None <port-powerpc@netbsd.org>
From: Toru Nishimura <locore64@alkyltechnology.com>
List: port-powerpc
Date: 12/16/2007 22:56:44
Tim Rightnour said;

> These are some things I've been thinking about that we can do to renovate
> powerpc a bit more, and clean it up a bit:
> ...
> Finally:
>
> 4) I was thinking we should change struct bootinfo to be a proplib, rather than
> a struct, to try to unify some of the code that parses it.  This would require
> changes to both the bootloaders and the machdep code.

I can help this move with my MPC8245 unit.  And I have one commercial
405EP brd and one proprietary 440EX brd in wait queue to implement
NetBSD bootloader, which are also candidates for the extended bootinfo.

Toru Nishimura / ALKYL Technology