Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:13:42 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Single user mode on G5! Message-ID: <4884A7A6.9050806@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <48848144.5040609@semihalf.com> References: <48824C5A.2010805@freebsd.org> <48848144.5040609@semihalf.com>
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Rafal Jaworowski wrote: > Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > >> Patches at http://banshee.uchicago.edu/~nwhitehorn/g5.diff. Beware that >> kernels with INVARIANTS enabled do not run on G5s because of some issues >> writing to the console in early boot and that the patch breaks building >> loader, and thus world. These should be easy to fix, and will be fixed >> once the system is working. >> > > Fantastic news, congratulations! > > I have one very general comment regarding naming scheme, which isn't even > strictly related to your G5 work but the existing G3/4 port too. There is the > 'OEA' prefix used, which came from NetBSD, but it seems rather unfortunate to > me: Operating Environment Architecure is a generic term for certain layer in > PowerPC definition nomenclature, and each implementation variant of the CPU > has actually its own OEA defined... I think it would be better to change it to > something more meaningful. > > Rafal > How about aim(64)? It's the name of the directory for the Book-S support anyway. We should probably also start thinking about a full 64-bit port soon. With support for the 64-bit MMU stuff required for bridge mode, we should end up with a lot of shared code. -Nathan
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