On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 02:15:29PM +0200, Cyril Plisko wrote: > as we discussed it on this list around a year ago - when the PowerPC > community was created. Taking the ufsboot route may seem to be the > quick way to bootstrap the activity, however it has significant > drawback of requiring working disk driver to be able to move beyond > the point where the root disk driver chain is being assembled. > Bearing in mind that PegasosII has ATA disk and the Solaris ATA driver > isn't opensourced it may be a major showstopper for us. Netboot > is a obvious alternative as all the components are in current source > tree and significant similarity between SPARC OBP and Peg' SmartFirmware > (both are implementations of OpenFirmware) simplifies port to Polaris.
I am curious about that, we are speaking about the boot thingy right now, and Polaris won't kill the OF, right, so is it not possible to simply use the firmware client interface to accessthe ATA disks ? Friendly, Sven Luther
