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Re: Booting homebrew ELF kernel on NewWorld OpenFirmware 3.0?
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Olaf Hering |
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Re: Booting homebrew ELF kernel on NewWorld OpenFirmware 3.0? |
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Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:08:33 +0200 |
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Mutt und vi sind doch schneller als Notes (und GroupWise) |
On Sun, Oct 09, Andrei Warkentin wrote:
> I trying to cobble together a simple Hello World ``kernel'' on the
> mac, and have a question concerning the booting specifics. I
> understand that OF 3.0 groks ELF, but the ELF file should contain
> some special information in the note section (and have the PT_NOTE
> thing). This special information entails the values for load-base and
> real-base (among other things) that are to be used. Here is where I
> become confused.
Noone except IBM CHRP cares about the PT_NOTE.
Proof: yaboot doesnt have one, and yaboot works fine for everyone.
--
short story of a lazy sysadmin:
alias appserv=wotan