On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 12:41:19PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > So what this boils too, is that for old-world pmac support, there is not > much to be done : > > 1) Kernel : create one more kernel-image udeb, which contains a > compressed vmlinux udeb for miboot. > > 2) boot-loader installer : someone write a proper quik-installer, and > this one gets called on pmac hardware. > > As for the pre-boot stuff, there is three ways of booting that need to > be documented (mostly done in the woody install documentation) and we > need to build the stuff needed by the user. > > 1) miboot booting : needs to get the kernel from the > kernel-image-pmac-miboot udeb, or gzip the one from the > kernel-image-pmac, and create two floppy images of it and the initrd. > > 2) bootx install : just put the standard pmac kernel and the initrd > somewhere together with documentation on how to get bootx. > > 3) serial OF install : uses the .coff kernel, need to create an udeb > using it. pretty much. > I will create the needed stuff from the kernels, i would like someone > with oldpmac hardware to confirm that by just compressing the vmlinux > kernel and putting it on a miboot floopy it will work though. there is no need to confirm it, this method has been used in boot-floppies for years, since before potato was released. > Someone else need to do the quik-installer though, and well, the > pre-boot stuff is not all that difficult. quik-installer is moderatly complicated if you want to do it right, it needs to depend on yaboot since yaboot provides ofpath. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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