1. There are not much platform specific initialization
code i.e. Power G3, G4, G5 etc specific code in yaboot
Yaboot is using OpenFirmware, so its not even theorethically platform specific to PowerPC/Power... however, its compiled for PowerPC (generic 32 bit), and due to firmware bugs in some machines has some workarounds for specific computers.
2. Is "yaboot" something like "GRUB" i.e. after
poweron on x86 based systems BIOS takes control, loads
GRUB which in turn has the option to boot strap either
windows or Linux ?
Its almost exactly equivalent to Lilo - can be made load a kernel to launch Linux or re-point itself at the bootloader of another partition. Although I think it has some level of internal shell like Grub has.
3. Is it like platform specific code for G3, G4 based
machines actually launches "yaboot" which in turn
reads the MBR from disk driver and loads the Linux
kernel ?
I don't know what you mean there... Hopefully the other answers helped.
Cian
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