I have checked the Etherboot, and it would be some easier to integrate filo into Etherboot.
May add one BOOT_FILO in cmos.layout. In the core/main.c, will judge if boot type is BOOT_FILO, and will call filo, and set state still =4, so it can boot next device. The problem is it is some kind of hard code. How can I enable tg3-filo.zelf? Regards YH. -----邮件原件----- 发件人: Eric W. Biederman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 代表 Eric W. Biederman 发送时间: 2004年4月3日 20:33 收件人: Greg Watson 抄送: Yinghai Lu; 'SONE Takeshi'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] 主题: Re: g-e$: FILO 0.4 [PMX:#] Greg Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yeah sorry, I kind of did that by stealth. Ron and I get lots of requests from > people wanting to use LB but who don't know how to deal with the payload > issue. We decided that it would be really nice to have a simple bootloader that > understands some basic filesystems built into LB. That way people can get going > without having to deal with etherboot or FILO directly. A nice side effect is > that it simplifies the FILO code significantly - in fact the only code that is > really required is the filesystem support. Also, another major plus is that the > code supports PPC as well as x86. Up to now I've had no bootloaders (etherboot > or FILO) that work on PPC. Then we refactor and make building the bootloader part of the tree. These things are policy engines. We need to separate mechanism and policy. As far as I can tell this level of support crosses the line. etherboot is portable and would not be hard to get running on ppc. Eric _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
