Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 18:33:39 -0800 From: Umesh Vaishampayan <umeshv@apple.com> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: the abi & hardware support Message-ID: <200101090233.SAA15234@scv3.apple.com> In-Reply-To: <200101082315.f08NFh316673@salzburg-online.at>
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On Monday, January 8, 2001, at 03:15 PM, Julian Mayer wrote: > The MacOSX/Darwin Bootloader has been pushed to the CVS repository > recently and supports some Old and all New World Machines (mainly all 601/ > 603 machines are unsupported). > "It understands loading kernels from HFS+, UFS, TFTP and even EXT2. It > can load kernels in Mach-O and ELF format." Note that ELF format loading in BootX is not tested as extensively as Mach-O loading. Also Apple's UFS implementation is slightly different [1K directory blocks, big-endian on disk meta-data]. --Umesh Umesh Vaishampayan Apple Computer, Inc. MacOS X, kernel group To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ppc" in the body of the message
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