Re: [Etherboot-developers] Porting question

[Yannis M. <gm...@te...>]

Hi Eric,

Thank you for your answer.

>Etherboot needs to be stripped down?
>  
>
It was a wrong phrase of mine. I mean that I am trying to comment-out 
everything related to x86.

>It should be possible to take the 5.1.x source and to do a real port.
>
Yes this is what I am doing...

>The tricky bits I see are the self decompresser, which is a screen
>Some support code like setjmp and longjmp.
>
For the time being I am commenting these out and I will figure out later 
what I will do with those

>And whatever you need for platform support.
>Any big endian issues that may come with your RISC processor.
>Any firmware/hardware interfacing issues you may have.
>
Actually the processor utilizes a big-endian scheme for its memories...

>
>Etherboot is already running on the Itanium so 64bit issues, and
>alignment issues are already sorted out.  Though not all of the
>drivers have been tested.
>  
>
I need only the well-konwn cs89x0 driver :-)

>I would recommend writing a mkelf for your platform that packages
>kernels ramdisks and everything together, instead of adding a COFF
>handler.  But it is your port...
>
This is not very clear to me. Initially I will try to add the COFF 
loader and if it is not possible I will come-back again.


Regards

Yannis