On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 10:27:51 +0200, Tobias Netzel wrote: > And we would need the possibility to build a bootloader. Daniel > Gimpelevich is able to build miboot but he isn't sure of BootX yet.
I will likely be involved with people from the Debian Project regarding that. The biggest technical obstacle for me ATM is the lack of a working recent Subversion client capable of handling AppleDouble. You can catch up here: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debootloaders-miboot/2006-September/000030.html > @Daniel: Would you like to make miboot provide a fake device tree for > NuBus machines? In order to build a device tree you could use DTC > (Device Tree Compiler) from http://dtc.ozlabs.org . And what about BootX? As it stands, miBoot passes a "BootX-style" device tree, which the kernel has always special-cased. I have not looked at DTC, but you make it sound like the longstanding device-tree problem has come full circle. One of the arguments against the use of BootX has long been the lack of access to the real device tree, although BootX's approach is probably the best possible under the circumstances. If DTC does the same thing, but better, using its mechanism should definitely go on the BootX TODO list. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Nubus-pmac-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users
