Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 17 Jul 2002, Eric W Biederman wrote: > > > > I'm using it now on DS10. > > > > Despite the ELF boot code working fine, at least it was. > > This may explain some of your compile errors though. > > I'm using linuxbiosmain for the case where we don't want to elfboot. > Particularly the case of using Steve Jame's etherboot code. It's handy for > the case that I don't want to chain boot Etherboot. I'm not sure making > etherboot 64-bit clean and usable on alpha is really worth the effort ...
For the alpha it may not be. Though I would at least suggest turning Steve Jame's code into a rom driver so we can use elfboot.c Which is 64bit clean. Though my impression was pretty strong using the built-in etherboot for anything other than a sis900 was a losing proposition, but it has been a long time since I looked at it. In any event the argument for keeping linuxbiosmain here rests solely on the fact that the alpha is a platform that isn't worth putting much new effort into. Which jives well with my plan of keeping linuxbiosmain through a series of stable releases, and removing it from the development codebase. I want a develpment split just so we can kill off all of the questionable code. Eric
