On Thu, 27 May 1999, Tom Rini wrote:

On Thu, 27 May 1999, Joel Klecker wrote:

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At 15:39 -0400 1999-05-27, Tom Rini wrote:

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On Thu, 27 May 1999, Brad Midgley wrote:

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don't you think it would be a great help to the success of linux on
powermac if we could make the kind of elf binary that the new open
firmware loads?

[neat ideas nusked]

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what remains to be done? is the problem well understood/documented?

It might be the text segments at the start.  Basically we need to see how
darwin and netbsd/macppc are linked and what they do that we don't (or
that we do and don't need to).  This is of coruse only my understanding,
from a dozen emails w/ adrian sun (I have access to an iMac, he
wants/wanted to fix it).

NetBSD/macppc kernels have the .note section that OF wants, 
Linux/powerpc kernels do not.

<ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/src/sys/arch
/powerpc/powerpc/ofwmagic.S>

See also vger: linux/arch/ppc/chrpboot/{mknote.c,Makefile}.

Hmm.  So has anybody tried booting a CHRP-specific 2.3.x kernel on a B&W
or iMac? :)

Just tried using the latest vger 'chrpboot', which makes a zImage, from a
Pmac kernel, and got 'gunzipping...'
'Default Catch 0900'  (which is the decrementer exception)

FYI, netbooting uses standard bootp and tftp 8->

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