Martin Bochnig wrote: > See this: > http://web.archive.org/web/19990220035521/www.rs6000.ibm.com/resource/technology/chrp/chrp_book.html > > > > " > Developed by Apple Computer, Inc., International Business Machines > Corporation, and Motorola, Inc. > " > >
Also read this: http://web.archive.org/web/20010224023835/http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/resource/technology/chrp/intro.html Notice, that this page was hosted by IBM, not Apple. Be also happy that Solaris had been mentioned there :) Old Sol2.5/2.5.1/2.6 ppc was not only intended to boot on PREP boxes with "conventional firmware" through use of VOF, but had also early support for booting on real OF: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/802-5366/6i94lvccp?a=view */"/* */PowerPC: Virtual Open Firmware/* Before the kernel is started, PowerPC systems are controlled by one of two types of read-only-memory firmware: * Conventional Open Firmware (OF) - built into the PowerPC system. * Virtual Open Firmware (VOF) - an implementation provided by SunSoft for PowerPC systems without built-in firmware. VOF is loaded onto fdisk partition 0x41 during installation. " I never found - on the other hand - any chrp subdirs in my 2.5.1 / 2.6beta installations, only prep. Does this mean there were also prep systems with "real" OF as default firmware? > -- > Best regards, > Martin > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/powerpc-discuss/attachments/20060116/16ec3032/attachment.html>
