benh: You posted a note about RAM for your 8500, and planning to do some work on BootX. I wonder if you'd also consider working on quik. I've done some playing around.
I've done some comparing of code between yaboot and quik, and really very little of it depends on OF. Quik has to rely on a bootblock, I guess, so first.b is a given. But, it seems to me, once we're out of OF, that we should be able to make yaboot run. It is the same architecture, after all. I tried just substituting yaboot for second.b, that would have been too easy. But I think almost the same concept should fly. I noticed the memory map that's set up for second.b doesn't leave enough room for yaboot (it leaves about 48k and yaboot needs around 160k IIRC) so I bolluxed up the memory map a bit trying to give it more room - but I'm obviously way over my head here and it didn't work. I guess next best, would be to substitute the applicable parts of yaboot into quik, or port yaboot to oldworlds (but I don't think Ethan's into that). I just don't know of any reason why it shouldn't work in theory at a top level: get booted with quik type bootblock code, continue with yaboot in all its glory. If you're not planning to work on this, could you at least point me in the right direction so I can continue experimenting? -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
