Re: PowerMac booting...not yet.

[SUNAGAWA Keiki <kei_sun%ba2.so-net.or.jp@localhost>]

Dan Jacobowitz <youngdrow%geocities.com@localhost> wrote:

Dan> Congratulations...what is the architecture from which
Dan> you are compiling?

It's APS M-Power 604e/200 under linucppc 2.1.57.

Dan> Right...
Dan> Although, how does one produce a xcoff file?

Gcc makes ELF format executable and objcopy converts it to
xcoff format, but the Open Firmware loader on PowerMac
doesn't like the xcoff file made by stock objcopy.

The comment of a program `hack-coff' which comes along with
linuxppc says that there are a few fields needed on Open
Firmware on PowerMac but not initialized by objcopy. The
program does the trick.

Dan> I envy you.  My Mac has the dear old broken 1.x Open
Dan> Firmware.

Well, I heard that OpenBSD/powerpc is working on some VME
board w/o Open Firmware and we could do that, or as Bill
said, porting NetBSD/mac68k's booter application is good.

Dan> If you could put that netbsd.coff (hacked) file up on
Dan> the net somewhere, I would be willing to try booting it
Dan> on my machine (7300 604e).

Hmm, I have no ftp/www site to put it on.  Is there someone
has the place I can upload the file?

Any help would be appreciated.

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