Re: multiboot for PowerPC

2006-10-13 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 16:18 -0500, Andrei E. Warkentin wrote: > > > I don't intend to put any Open Firmware information into the > multiboot > > structure, since OF will still be live when the OS is executed. > > Ah okay, so just store the OF entry pointer or EFI system table with > key-value.

Re: multiboot for PowerPC

2006-10-13 Thread Andrei E. Warkentin
On 13.10.2006, at 15:55, Hollis Blanchard wrote: On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 15:06 -0500, Andrei E. Warkentin wrote: I just stalk this mailing list, but I think it'd be great to turn the Multiboot specification less PC BIOS-centric. The Multiboot spec exposes various legacy structures for the x86 PC.

Re: multiboot for PowerPC

2006-10-13 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 15:06 -0500, Andrei E. Warkentin wrote: > I just stalk this mailing list, but I think it'd be great to turn the > Multiboot specification less PC BIOS-centric. The Multiboot spec > exposes various legacy structures for the x86 PC. How do you intend to > work in platform specif

Re: multiboot for PowerPC

2006-10-13 Thread Andrei E. Warkentin
What about non-OF systems?Slightly OT, but has any work been done to make Multiboot ia32/x64 EFI-friendly? Andrei Evgenievich Warkentin[EMAIL PROTECTED]Cell: (+1) (847) 321-15-55 On 13.10.2006, at 14:44, Hollis Blanchard wrote:For Xen development, I need multiboot for PowerPC. In a week or so, Iwi

multiboot for PowerPC

2006-10-13 Thread Hollis Blanchard
For Xen development, I need multiboot for PowerPC. In a week or so, I will be starting this work based on Okuji-san's wiki page at http://grub.enbug.org/MultibootDraft . I just wanted to let people know in case anybody has some additional comments about it. (I haven't read the page