On Mar 19, 2014, at 16:46, Christian Groessler <chris%groessler.org@localhost>
wrote:
Hi again,
On 03/13/14 00:03, Christian Groessler wrote:
I'm trying to install -current on a dual PowerMac G5 which was recently given
to me.
ofwboot.xcf seems to crash before it starts to load the kernel. I found a
similar problem
in the archives
(http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-macppc/2009/09/27/msg000876.html)
but there was no response to this message.
I've tried the latest ofwboot.xcf as well as older ones lying around over here,
but I always
get the same crash, which is described in the message cited above. For the
different
ofwboot.xcfs the SRR0 values are slightly different which I interpret as the
crash address.
http://www.netbsd.org/ports/macppc/models.html cites G5 PowerMacs as being
supported,
so what is wrong?
Am I missing a OF setting I need to make or something?
Hmm, no response. Is this list still alive?
I did some research, and ofwboot.xcf crashes in sys/lib/libsa/loadfile_elf32.c,
function loadfile().
It tries to load the kernel to address 0x100000.
I've added a line of code to write something to 0x100000 just before the READ()
call,
with a printf before and after.
The printf before appears, but not the printf after. So it seems that address
0x100000
is not writable (or present).
dev /openprom
.properties
reports Openfirmware 4.
So it looks like Openfirmware 4 is not supported. Is this correct?
regards,
chris