On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 05:01:28PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > >Bear in mind that miBoot is incredibly tiny. It uses open firmware to > >access the disk, which is notoriously unreliable. > > > >We -might- be able to get away with a text config file - if i can get a > >mac development environment up I'll prod at it. > > No, miBoot doesn't use OF. It's a fake MacOS System and it uses MacOS ROM > calls to access the disk. Note that since the real System file isn't > loaded, it solely relies on ROM-based MacOS drivers & filesystem, which > can eventually be bogus...
Oh, thanks. I knew it used bogus drivers, I just got confused as to which set of bogus drivers :) Do you see any problems in loading a config file, if I were to write the necessary parsing code? It would make miBoot much more useful, IMO... Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
