Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 23:45:46 +1000 From: <peterg@ptree32.com.au> To: Alex Zepeda <zipzippy@sonic.net> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How are things looking? Message-ID: <200309141345.ABM25875@dommail.onthenet.com.au>
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>> FreeBSD will use the console device that OpenFirmware is
>> set to. You can use the FreeBSD loader in place of the
>> NetBSD one, and OFW can even boot a FreeBSD kernel
directly.
Oops, I forgot that you were using the beige G3 there.
You're right, OFW 2.4 doesn't understand ELF.
>I was able to use objdump and fixcoff (which would make
>a great addition to the fbsd tree) from NetBSD to create
>a useable loader.
That's great news. My plan was not to use binutils, but
to modify the existing elf2aout to create the XCOFF'd
loader.
>After that, of course, will be getting the onboard ethernet
>working. :-D
I'm working on that as well (for the B&W G3), but if you
want, and since I won't be coding for another week or so,
you could start with the sources at
www.freebsd.org/~grehan/if_bm.c
if_bmreg.h
The big issue is how to do a clean NEWBUS version of dbdma.
later,
Peter.
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