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Re: docs on compiling kernels for miboot?



On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 03:48:02PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> 
> Is there a particular reason why mac boot stuff can't cope with just plain
> vmliunz ? or maybe the conversion stuff could be added to the bootloader
> program instead of residing in the kernel ?

because all of the powermac bootloaders consist entirely of cruft,
this is something i intend to fix one way or another.  right now i am
looking at making silo arch: powerpc | sparc

i really am beginning to think we should not bother including OF
bootable images at all.  its pointless since OF can't read the root
filesystem anyway, so lets require bootloaders.  

booting images directly via OF is something approximatly one person
actually does, and he can just compile his own kernel (he doesn't use
debian anyway and if he did he wouldn't use kernel-package).  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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