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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


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