[OT] Re: Open Firmware booting on Blue G3

1999-08-12 Thread Joel Klecker
At 00:12 -0400 1999-08-12, Tom Rini wrote: Such a new OF that Linux needs to be fixed. :) BTW, the OF-script apple requires can be generated by the mknote program in arch/ppc/someplace. But, we have some other issues to deal with. mknote hard-codes the chrpboot values in the .note section for

[OT] Re: Open Firmware booting on Blue G3

1999-08-12 Thread Tom Rini
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Ethan Benson wrote: > is there any work on this? I hope Debian is not going to be a BootX > only distribution like LinuxPPC is... LinuxPPC 1999 is BootX only because no one had the time to write+test the quik section for the RedHat-based installer. :) > I realize that most

Open Firmware booting on Blue G3

1999-08-12 Thread Ethan Benson
hello, I am wondering if the Debian PPC distribution is going to (or working on) supporting macos-free Open Firmware booting on a Blue G3 or iMac. This is what I know so far about booting these machines: OF requires what Apple calls a "bootfile" this is basically a OF script. it is possible