> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 11:50:42 +0100 > From: "Peter J. Philipp" <p...@centroid.eu> > > 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 :-).
There is some code in sys/arch/arm64/stand/efiboot/fdt.c that can add nodes and properties to a tree, so you don't need to start from scratch here.
