From owner-freebsd-ia64 Tue Mar 6 12:36:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B026A37B722 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 12:36:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from [62.49.251.130] (helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 14aOBo-0005mC-0X for ia64@freebsd.org; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 20:36:12 +0000 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f26KYv724061 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 20:34:57 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 20:34:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Subject: Porting the loader Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Since nothing seemed to be happening here (hope I'm not stepping on any toes), I decided to start porting the loader. I now have the thing at the stage where it initialises the console and memory allocator and actually reaches the 'ok' prompt. Can't do much else with it yet though :-). If anyone is interested, I can send the source. I can't commit it just yet since I'm using some Intel header files and I'm waiting for clarification on the license for them. I suppose I'll have to buy an LS120 drive next since that seems to be the only way of getting information onto the beast. Fortunately the loader fits easily on a normal floppy. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message