Re: Booting homebrew ELF kernel on NewWorld OpenFirmware 3.0?

[Andrei Warkentin]

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Hello,

Thank you for your reply. Thus, all I need for OF 3.0 to load my    
``kernel'' is just a statically-linked ELF file, with proper  
endianness, and a _start symbol? Does anyone know how well OF 3.0  
deals with different endianness if at all?

Thanks again for the information and have a great day.

On Oct 10, 2005, at 3:08 AM, Olaf Hering wrote:

>  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
>
>
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