Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Eric W Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020715 14:03]: > > Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > There was a fair bit that was Tsunami specific. But it was written to > > be as well factored, and general as possible. That just isn't very > > possible on the alpha. > > I know this from milo code. but it should be acceptable to #ifdef > different alpha platforms or even better have seperate files for > each of those platforms.
Definitely seperate platforms. I think the code is well enough factored so that should be natural. > > I won't get in the way. This does assume people have time to do the work, > > and no market potential makes those people harder to find. > > agreed. Though the bootloader situation for all non-srm alphas is severe > anyways. it should be easier to find people willing to look into > linuxbios than keeping up the milo waste of time. Sounds fun to me. > > > I.e. do I have to flash the > > > LinuxBIOS image to a certain position and take care not to overwrite > > > other areas in flash? > > > Basically the SROM scans for either the first or the second valid > > boot header. This is actually one of the slower parts of the boot. > > So the way to go is to determine some free space on the flash and put > a header to it that is known to srom as a boot header? That, and to be certain there aren't other headers. > I guess the problem with my former try was that I just overwrote the > beginning of the flash device, thus just erasing the SRM without > taking care of a second image on the chip. Sounds correct. > > Ron or I should be able to give you a working image to start with. > > Does this contain an SRM backup image I can go back to? Switching > between 2 LinuxBIOS versions should be sufficient if one is working. > If you could provide such an image this would be very useful. I have two compiles of LinuxBIOS in there both of which come up NFS root. I will see what I can do with MCR I have some pretty hectic schedule issues right now. > Looks like it is time that I fix the VGA stuff - one of the DS10s is my > workstation here so having that working would be kind of nice. Practical motivation :) Eric
