linuxbios on PPC (fwd)

Eric W. Biederman ebiederman at lnxi.com
Tue Mar 11 10:59:00 CET 2003


"Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich at lanl.gov> writes:

> On 11 Mar 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> > I would think the problem would be a missing call to elf_boot,
> > not jump to linuxbiosmain.
> 
> I leave that one to Greg.
> 
> > Do we need to talk about an etherboot port to PPC?
> 
> don't know yet.

It works on Itanium so porting should not be too bad.
 
> > Is it time to start considering an  ADLO like tool
> > that implements openfirmware?
> 
> That's what Stefan Reinauer has been working on. Also steve james has in 
> fact done a forth boot project that is almost there. 

Right.

> > Ron I don't know if we will have time but I will see if I can
> > ring a demo out of you this afternoon, since I'm going to be down
> > there anyway.
> 
> the node is off-site, but maybe Greg can bring it in tomorrow.

Darn.  Maybe I can just hope to meet Greg.  I'm pretty certain
I won't have time to do more than drive to the airport tomorrow.

Eric




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