Re: legal stuff about miBoot
On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 13:01, Jeremie Koenig wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 12:00:21PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > 1.0d4 has numerous issues and will not work with recent kernels afaik.
> >
> > Why is there a problem using the more recent one ?
>
> I have only succeeded loading "miboot.image" files. This is annoying,
> because Debian kernel packages contain ELF images, which quik uses too.
>
> miboot.image files boot, but the video is screwed (it looks like a sync
> problem). It's not specific to the Debian kernel, the kernel distributed
> with miBoot gives the same result. (It's a "control" video adapter in
> a "Power Macintosh 8500/120" computer.)
>
> I'm speaking about the System file on the floppy image shipped with
> BootX 1.2.2, which seems to be miBoot 1.0a3 (both in the source and the
> binary). I'm a bit confused with this. Is it really a newer version ?
Yes.
> 1.0d4 reads gzipped ELFs and works perfectly, OTOH. We're using Linux
> 2.4.25, IIRC.
Weird. Well, I can try to work on it one of this day provided I
find some MacOS dev tools ;)
Anyway, do what you want, it's all GPL
Ben.
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