-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello,
I trying to cobble together a simple Hello World ``kernel'' on the mac, and have a question concerning the booting specifics. I understand that OF 3.0 groks ELF, but the ELF file should contain some special information in the note section (and have the PT_NOTE thing). This special information entails the values for load-base and real-base (among other things) that are to be used. Here is where I become confused.
There are plenty of warnings on the web (*BSD sites, usually) to not mess with load-base and real-base in OF 3.0, since doing so can inadvertently result in overwriting OF in flash, thus bricking the computer. I don't want to do that to my new iBook :-). Yet, looking at BSD's ofwboot, yaboot, and NewWorld booting code in Linux, I see that all of these mess with the load-base in the note descriptor - setting it to 0x4000 (which, interestingly enough is the default load- base in OF 1.0.5, and not a good one for linux at that) or 0x3000. Is there a reason for not leaving this at 0xffffffff thus using whatever the default OF 3.0 one is? (The BSD bootloader sites assure me it's a good one).
I'm sorry if this a tad OT, but I realized this is probably the best place to ask this question (to which I can't find an answer anywhere) since you guys probably eat this stuff for lunch :-).
Thank you very much and have a good day. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFDSdHZY/rXIPQviuERAoqSAJ9CBBGasgGbTP1daGKIhAOjwJoGTQCgmUKt hx7Pp0UFf8LtOnx/V9XWNRA= =Dlgh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
