On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 11:31:46AM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > It could make dual-booting easier on a G5 while adding a (half) stage to > > macppc64 (and perhaps eventually macppc arch?). > > Doesn't really make sense. The BOOT kernel is there because POWER9 > "firmware" doesn't provide a device access interface. That limitation > doesn't exist with Open Firmware. Having a BOOT kernel adds a > significant delay to the boot process, so if we can avoid it, we > probably should.
OK, that explanation makes sense to me. Good I have something to work with on the ofwboot64 stuff I did in 2018, I just have to bring it up to date and then add FDT blob compiler, shouldn't be harder than constructing a DNS packet :-). And I gave myself a year to do this project so I'm not gonna rush it :-). I also looked on your include/endian.h hint and it looks like I already wrote conversions back in 2018 as well for the __mswap64() macros (iirc). This will be fun, I'm looking forward to late January to get started. Best Regards, -peter
