Re: [Etherboot-developers] Porting question
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From: Yannis M. <gm...@te...> - 2003-02-21 10:05:37
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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 |