Re: multiboot for PowerPC

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 16:18 -0500, Andrei E. Warkentin wrote:
> 
> > I don't intend to put any Open Firmware information into the
> multiboot
> > structure, since OF will still be live when the OS is executed.
> 
> Ah okay, so just store the OF entry pointer or EFI system table with  
> key-value. Okay. That makes sense. 

Actually, even better would be to preserve it just as if firmware had
loaded the OS directly. For PowerPC, that means maintaining the entry
vector in GPR5. This way, OSs don't need to know anything about
multiboot at all (the embedded multiboot header is another
conversation).

-Hollis