Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965030AbVIKStm (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Sep 2005 14:49:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965034AbVIKStm (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Sep 2005 14:49:42 -0400 Received: from dsl027-180-168.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.168]:6891 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965030AbVIKStl (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Sep 2005 14:49:41 -0400 Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 11:49:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20050911.114943.73157389.davem@davemloft.net> To: maillist@jg555.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Pure 64 bootloaders From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <43245C56.5000905@jg555.com> References: <43228E4E.4050103@jg555.com> <20050910.010114.28468998.davem@davemloft.net> <43245C56.5000905@jg555.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 4.2.53 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 734 Lines: 19 From: Jim Gifford Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 09:33:26 -0700 > For the Sparc64 builds, I'm starting to look at using OBP to do the booting. OBP cannot boot because it doesn't understand the ext2 filesystem, and therefore cannot get at the image. The only thing you can do is netboot kernel images converted to a.out format using the elf2aout tool. Stop fighting city hall and work on fixing SILO to support a 64-bit build if you want, instead of all of these hacks. :-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/