RE: arch/powerpc/stand/mkbootimage supports bebox

[Tim Rightnour <root%garbled.net@localhost>]

On 21-May-2008 KIYOHARA Takashi wrote:
> I completed debug for arch/powerpc/stand/mkbootimage.
> I will commit this patch and remove arch/bebox/mkbootimage next weekend. ;-)

Thanks for getting that working.  I'm happier seeing all three share the same
one.  Make sure that when you commit this fix, you update the tool makefiles to
stop producing bebox-mkbootimage, and instead instruct them that bebox uses the
powerpc mkbootimage.  (see prep/rs6000 for an example)

Also, a quick request.  It may have been a bad idea for me to use a #define
like ENTRY.  I didn't think it was a big deal at the time, but now that I think
about it, you should change that to BEBOX_ENTRY, in case another port comes
along that also needs an entrypoint.

Great work!

> By the way,  I put patch for new boot(8) of bebox to
>   ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/kiyohara/tmp/boot.diff
> 
> However, I will have to solve the problem of genfb and vga.  X-<

Looking at your bootloader and prep's bootloader, perhaps its time we tried to
share a bit of code.  I think at least a few of the files are pretty similar. 
Perhaps we can create a directory in powerpc/stand and do some sort of
reachover to share those files.  We can hold off on doing that until after you
have your bootloader working 100% the way you want it to.

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