> Ken Mays wrote:
>> There were some recent notes in which I think I've witnessed a few things:
>>
>> 1. Sun Studio cross compiling (x86 - > powerPC)
>> 2. GCC 4.0 (toolchain)
>> 3. as,ld ported to Polaris
>>
> Solaris ld was ported for Polaris (PowerPC). as was the GNU as with a
> code fix.
>> 4. BASH 3.2 port
>>
> ???
At this point I think that a shell would not do us any justice. Certainly
not a full blown BASH which needs a ton of dependencies. No, I think a
simple shell test which can listen to some sort of input and perhaps respond
with an echo of the input would be a place to start. Just getting past the
input of the char and the output of the char will be a first hurdle.
There is no sense in trying to type ls when there is no ls. Yet.
By the way .. I have an EFIKA here and it can pretty much fetch anything
over the network from its firmware :
cpu0: PowerPC,G2 CPUClock 396 Mhz BUSClock 132 Mhz (Version 0x8082,0x2014)
Welcome to SmartFirmware(tm) for bplan EFIKA5K2
Version 1.3 (20061107101950)
SmartFirmware(tm) Copyright 1996-2001 by CodeGen, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.
Pegasos BIOS Extensions Copyright 2001-2006 by bplan GmbH.
All Rights Reserved.
ok
It is pretty easy to simply plug it in and turn it on and then it does ..
well it does not much but it does have firmware.
What I generally do is this :
ok boot eth:192.168.35.100,genunix,192.168.35.121,192.168.35.1 genunix
and you can add some stuff at the end that will get ignored anyways .. like
root=/dev/sda2 console=ttyPSC0,9600
but if you try to boot Debian Linux then you need stuff like that.
The DHCP/BOOTP server is a Solaris 8 UltraSparc server running ISC DHCPd (
because the Solaris default stuff is just horrible ) and tftpd as per usual.
Maybe I should document some of this for other people but this crowd pretty
much knows how to do all this anyways I would imagine.
On a side note .. to this rambler .. there is a new release of the ISC DHCPd
( Version 4.0.0b1 ) from a few days ago. I'll try to get that into
Blastwave.org .. soonish.
Dennis
