Am 06.10.2006 um 22:19 schrieb Daniel Gimpelevich: > 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.
Unfortunately on NuBus machines BootX/miBoot doesn't provide a device tree at all. So currently the kernel itself has to build a device tree early in the boot process. Such things will hardly make it into the official kernel source. Using DTC one could compile special device trees for the PDM, Performa and PowerBook NuBus machines that only have to be copied into memory the kernel can access. That would free us from messing around with device tree building in the kernel itself. > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
