Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 08:59:44 +0300 (MSK) From: Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@bog.msu.su> To: Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG, Ian Logan <ian@nmsu.edu>, Chris Toshok <toshok@hungry.com> Subject: Re: How UltraAX boots Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.980112085721.12010A-100000@sunny.bog.msu.su> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980111042449.533O-100000@mozart.canonware.com>
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> > We're going to be facing a big bang problem as far as booting goes. In > order to get a serial console working, it looks like we'll have to have > the UPA, PCI, and EBus code working, in addition to serial code (just need > to port the serial code). So, we'll pretty much have to make the whole > motherboard work all at once, unless we can route the console through OBP > (seems unlikely, or at least problematic). Yuck. > NetBSD/powerpc uses OBP(OpenFirmware) for all it's device drivers. You may want to look at it. -Dima
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