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Date:      Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:17:28 +1000
From:      Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
To:        Jaworowski Rafal-ARJ004 <Rafal.Jaworowski@motorola.com>
Cc:        "'freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FYI: rudimentary loader for ppcbug-based systems
Message-ID:  <3F8BDB48.126C9093@freebsd.org>
References:  <E087F7025D7E494B8015119695CEDB4C019721FC@zpl02exm01.mpsc.mot.com>

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> In case anyone would be interested..
> 
> I have put together a rudimentary third-stage loader that is tied to PPCBug firmware.

 Great work Rafal !

> The first piece of functionality I want to achieve is netbooting the kernel. At the moment 
> the loader is able to mount nfs-exported directory, browse it and load elf files across the
> network. I didn't get to execute the actual powerpc kernel yet but that's the next step. 
> I'm using a compactPCI MCP750 board if you're interested.

 I think you'll run into OpenFirmware dependencies very quickly in the kernel. However,
it might not be that difficult to fix that, and it needs to be done at some point anyways.

later,

Peter.



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