Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 14 Jun 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> > > In fact the need to update flash is rare. Part of the Scyld boot process
> > > involves downloading a "real" kernel. So you only run that flash-based
> > > kernel for a second or so.
> >
> > Ron. How is the palcode handled. Unless things are dramatically
> > different from how I set them up. The first kernel loads palcode, and
> > then you are using scyld to boot a second kernel. How do you prevent
> > overwriting your palcode?
>
> Sorry, I mixed up two cases. The case mentioned above only works on
> pentiums right now.
O.k. That answers my question.
> > Not that this isn't a good process but if you have this problem solved
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Which thing?
Linux booting linux with scyld on alpha. If you had it working I was
certain it was buggy :)
> ron
> p.s. Alphas sure are FUN, aren't they. I thought linux booting linux was
> hard on the x86.
Ron. I have it working. If I don't replace out the palcode it works
perfectly. So I have it working for all important cases except
linuxBIOS whoops. I just haven't had the time to figure out the
palcode loading case and I had so hoped you had debugged my code or
that someone had a reliable implementation so I could scratch
something off of my todo list.
The real problem with Alphas is that they depend on the ``BIOS'' for
normal operation than x86 linux does. If I continue to care about
alpha in the 2.5 timeframe I think I'll need to develop patches that
makes all of those dependencies conditional.
Eric
