On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 03:18:34 -0600, William Kucharski writes:
>GRUB2 would likely be more likely able to support booting on
>ROMs like U-Boot's, as use of the latter would involve booting via a compressed
>ramdisk image of some type;
So you mean a two stage boot where U-Boot boots GRUB2? Which then boots
OpenSolaris?
>booting from a OF ROM generally involves extensive
>use of OF calls to allocate and map memory until the kernel is able to do so
>itself.
I see - and it is the intention of GRUB2 to support all these OF calls that
OpenSolaris needs I presume?
The alternative is for U-Boot to provide the required OpenFirmware support -
is it clear what sort of things OpenSolaris needs from OpenFirmware? Is
OpenFirmware really Open as the name suggests? (are there any patent problems
etc?)
It might be easier for me to just port what I need from GRUB2 over to U-Boot,
since I know U-Boot pretty well. Any thoughts? Cheers!
Murray...
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