Hi everyone, I'm new to the PowerPC platform, and tried to install Sarge netinst this evening. My experience with the printk messages being suppressed during package installation is in another post to debian-powerpc and debian-boot lists.
Can someone tell me what the various partitions are for on the macppc? I couldn't partition the disk without using guided partitioning. The guided partitioning selects a small ~35K partition labelled "Apple" or something, and a NewWorld boot partition of 1MB for yaboot, I think. Why these partitions and why the sizes selected? Is this required for OF or something? Also when the system starts, it prints the address of the framebuffer. Is this saved into /var/log/messages or anything like that? I would certainly like to learn more about the PPC architecture. Is there a good book on assembly language for the PPC with details of I/O, how to access/discover hardware, how to set up paging with the MMU, etc? Is using OF necessary past the boot stage? Can it be ignored after that as the BIOS is ignored after booting on x86 platforms? Is there any documentation on the Debian port to PowerPC for beginners interested in system level software and kernel development? Are there reserved memory regions for the PowerPC on the mac? How does the kernel discover how much memory is installed? Perhaps through a call to OF? The kernel seems to be loaded to some arbitrary location, as I've seen somewhere. If this is so, how is the kernel linked? Must it somehow relocate itself? And how to handle interrupts on the MacPPC, and all that stuff the kernel does... books, docs on the net, etc. Thanks for your help. :) James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
