Subject: Re: 601 Processor
To: Emmanuel Dreyfus <p99dreyf@criens.u-psud.fr>
From: Dan Winship <danw@ximian.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 04/26/2001 18:47:24
> add NetBSD support to bootX. As fas as I understand, BootX launch a UNIX
> kernel from the MacOS, and gives it a device tree similar to what we
> currently get from OpenFirmware.
>
> It seems to me that BootX support means that we would be able to boot
> NetBSD on machines without OpenFirmware too.
I believe the current BootX used by Darwin/OS X is not really the same
as the old LinuxPPC BootX (it boots from OF, not Mac OS), so I think
that's not true.
(Louis or anyone else, can you confirm that?)
-- Dan