Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 00:03:11 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AlphaBIOS documentation Message-ID: <199805310603.AAA16501@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 30 May 1998 09:21:08 PDT." <199805301621.JAA06062@antipodes.cdrom.com> References: <199805301621.JAA06062@antipodes.cdrom.com>
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In message <199805301621.JAA06062@antipodes.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes: : I think the Linux-Mips ARC bootloader is similar. The Linux/MIPS ARC bootloader is *NOT* similar. It uses the ARC BIOS routines in a way that works around many of the bugs in the ARC BIOS implementations that are out there. It loads the kernel using standard ARC BIOS calls. The only thing "interesting" that it does is provide support for loading ELF kernels when the ARC BIOS itself only supports COFF or ECOFF. ARC BIOS is kinda cool. Too bad it is buggy as heck on most machines. It works well enough to get NT running, and that's about it :-(. I don't know how different the ALPHA version of ARC is. I have the standard knocking around somewhere for the MIPS based version. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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