[haiku-development] Re: EFI (was: multi-selection semantics)
- From: Marcus Jacob <rossi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2007 23:12:01 +0200
Just out of curiosity, I assumed the PPC version is more or less non
existent. Am I wrong? What is the state of Haiku on PPC?
Cheers,
Rossi
>
>On 2007-06-09 at 19:33:06 [+0200], Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>> Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>[...]
>> > I wouldn't use the initramfs method by default (i.e. for booting from
>> > standard disks), but for network boot, it might indeed be the best
>> > choice.
>>
>> Not only for network boot - also for coping with buggy or incapable
>> firmware. For example, I wanted to use the tarfs to boot the PPC
>> version on the Pegasos later - or at least until I have found ways to
>> work around that firmware in a sane way :-)
>
>I suppose, it would also help with the standard PPC port (i.e. with
>reasonably well working OF), since we could use François's already existing
>NBD driver and remove the network support from the boot loader again.
>
>> I would think it should be possible to link the tarfs into the boot
>> loader, such that the network and firmware loader would automatically
>> load everything we need in a single go
>
>Yes, it should be possible to generate an ELF object file with the tgz in
>the data section and link it into the boot loader.
>
>> - and that would also allow us
>> to remove the networking mini stack from the boot loader (even if
>> optionally).
>
>As long as the firmware provides a means to load a file over network (my
>Mac's OF has TFTP support, for instance), we can ditch it anyway.
>
>CU, Ingo
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