On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 01:26:22 -0600, William Kucharski writes:
>Likewise, it would make more sense to base the boot process on
>SPARC's boot process, given both SPARC and PPCs boot using OpenFirmware, though
>there is something to be said for making GRUB2 the booter for PPC.
Just to throw in another data point, I am actually interested in porting
OpenSolaris to our embedded PPC platform based on Motorola MPC8260/MPC8560
processors. These boards boot using "DAS U-Boot" (u-boot.sourceforge.net),
which doesn't have OpenFirmware support (yet).
I think the boot code is not that important, as long as there is a clearly
documented interface (such as OpenFirmware) - it is up to the hardware maker
to make the boot code to the right thing for OpenSolaris (not vice-versa).
I'm just speaking up now so that hopefully there won't be too many assumptions
made about the platform by the ppc porters. For example, the assumption that
there is a disk, swap space, graphics adapter, kbd/mouse, usb, network, etc
etc. It may be that all you have is RAM and a serial port :-) Cheers!
Murray...
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