From owner-freebsd-ia64 Sun Sep 9 10:17:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from kayak.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.bayarea.net [209.128.86.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3F9937B403 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 10:17:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (athlon.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.3]) by kayak.xcllnt.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f89HH0f45241; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 10:17:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@kayak.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (8.11.6/8.11.5) id f89HH0u00666; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 10:17:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel) Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 10:17:00 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Doug Rabson Cc: ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ski port Message-ID: <20010909101700.A531@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <20010909000427.A33296@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20010909174317.V406-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010909174317.V406-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i Sender: owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 05:44:02PM +0100, Doug Rabson wrote: > On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > > We're currently not really interested in userland code, so we're > > going to run ski in "raw" mode anyway. I should be able to hack > > something together that allows us to work on a real EFI bootloader. > > With a combination of fake and real ACPI entries we should be able > > to boot a kernel as if it was running on real hardware, right? > > > > That would probably be pretty useful. It sounds like a *lot* of work > though. EFI is pretty extensive. Yes, it would be a lot of work. And I can imagine that the ski owners are not going to keep the feature if it wasn't done right. I think it's good to have. I just want to make sure I spend my time well and not waste it on a feature that will never complete and/or won't be used. Another thought struck me. As soon as we have our own toolchain, we probably will use DBX as the debugging format and not dwarf. I'd better make sure that ski supports DBX if we want it to be as useful then as it is now. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message