Jerry Gilliam wrote: > > I am sponsoring this project as a fast-track on behalf of Jan > Setje-Eilers and John Johnson. The case timer is set to 8/7/2007.
FYI. Added FWARC to the mailing list. One comment below. > > A new node (/packages/boot-properties) will be added to the OBP device tree by > the booter which contains these properties. Is there a reason to create new node under /packages instead of under /chosen node? /chosen is defined by IEEE 1275 standard to contain properties such as "bootpath", "bootargs" etc. It seems like /chosen node is a better place to add the new node. > > In addition to the above compatibility properties, a couple of new properties > are > needed: > > "bootarchive" boot archive path (as opposed to "bootpath", the root > file system path) > "elfheader-address" address of kernel ELF header, used by krtld in lieu of > the bootaux vector passed up via the second-stage booter > "elfheader-length" length of kernel ELF header > "archive-fstype" fstype of boot archive > > -- Hitendra Zhangada ==================================== SPS Common SW Features Engineering Systems Group, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Sun Ph# (858) 625 3757, Sun Ext. x53757 Internal homepage http://esp.west/~hitu
