On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 09:19:24 +0100, Magnus Damm <damm at opensource.se> writes: >Or maybe there are zillions of applications booting the kernel directly >without the bootloader..
ppcboot for one ... and it only takes one application, if there are "zillions" of people using it :-) Cheers! Murray... PS: it doesn't really matter what the mechanism for passing info to the kernel is, as long as it is an open standard - ppcboot will simply just conform to it. But this will require effort on someone's part so changes shouldn't be done lightly or gratuitously - they should be discussed in the list first and the changes should "add value" (so to speak :-) -- Murray Jensen, CSIRO Manufacturing & Infra. Tech. Phone: +61 3 9662 7763 Locked Bag No. 9, Preston, Vic, 3072, Australia. Fax: +61 3 9662 7853 Internet: Murray.Jensen at csiro.au Hymod project: http://www.msa.cmst.csiro.au/projects/Hymod/ ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/