Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:37:04 -0500 (CDT) From: Brent Casavant <b.j.casavant@ieee.org> To: Robert Nagy <robert@bsd.hu> Cc: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SGI Altix 350 Message-ID: <20060612092621.P65761@abigail.hsd1.mn.comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20060612102703.GA16381@bsd.hu> References: <20060612102703.GA16381@bsd.hu>
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On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Robert Nagy wrote: > If I do a contiune from there the box hangs. > And that is it. Linux uses relocatable but I have no idea if that > has anything to do with this. As the person who wrote the ELILO relocatable support... Yes, that certainly has something to do with it, though it's by far not the only issue you'll run into. Relocatable, by the way, means that the loader is free to place the loaded kernel at a physical address other than that specified by the ELF headers. Since Altix has a discontiguous memory space, and as you are not even guaranteed that memory exists starting at address zero, the loader needs this capability. As I recall, Linux itself was modified to handle being loaded somewhere other than where it expects -- though I didn't do that work myself, so my memory is fuzzy. I suspect that things will work slightly better for you once an ACPI enabled PROM is available for the Altix, though I'm sure there'll be many other issues to address. Considering the huge amount of kernel work originally required to get Linux even minimally booting on Altix, I don't expect we'll soon see FreeBSD running on it. Brent
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