On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 06:59:51PM +1000, Murray.Jensen at csiro.au wrote: > On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 01:26:22 -0600, William Kucharski writes: > >Likewise, it would make more sense to base the boot process on > >SPARC's boot process, given both SPARC and PPCs boot using OpenFirmware, > >though > >there is something to be said for making GRUB2 the booter for PPC. > > Just to throw in another data point, I am actually interested in porting > OpenSolaris to our embedded PPC platform based on Motorola MPC8260/MPC8560 > processors. These boards boot using "DAS U-Boot" (u-boot.sourceforge.net), > which doesn't have OpenFirmware support (yet).
Notice that you may possibly have the same OF implementation as the pegasos has on those, i have some intentions of porting it to the some MPC 82xx reference freescale platforms in the near future. > I think the boot code is not that important, as long as there is a clearly > documented interface (such as OpenFirmware) - it is up to the hardware maker > to make the boot code to the right thing for OpenSolaris (not vice-versa). > > I'm just speaking up now so that hopefully there won't be too many assumptions > made about the platform by the ppc porters. For example, the assumption that > there is a disk, swap space, graphics adapter, kbd/mouse, usb, network, etc > etc. It may be that all you have is RAM and a serial port :-) Cheers! Friendly, Sven Luther
