Hi all, I've been trying to get the kernel with powerpc architecture (until now we have been using the now deprecated ppc architecture) to launch on my PB 1400. Using MkLinux Booter the kernel now launches and the architecture setup is done but there still have to be ported the drivers. I used dtc (device tree compiler) to compile a flat device tree for the PB 1400. which is copied into kernel memory and passed to the kernel by the second stage bootloader code that is launched by the MkLinux Booter and which decompresses kernel and ramdisk and sets up the fake BootX bootinfos. My plan is to compile different device trees for all the Performas, PDMs and PowerBooks and have the correct one copied and passed to the kernel depending on the Gestalt ID. I think I should be able to enhance BootX 1.1.3 to support this, too. In order to do the same for the miBoot part I might need CodeWarrior 4 because I don't think I'd be able to integrate a PPC compiled code fragment into it, what shouldn't be a problem on BootX.
Florian might port his 2.6 work done for the ppc architecture to the powerpc architecture. Anyone else here who'd like to contribute? Cheers, Tobias ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Nubus-pmac-users mailing list Nubus-pmac-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users
