Re: CVS Update: 2.3 (branch: trunk)

[Rene B. <re...@we...>]

Hello!

> 
> I've compiled a kernel with  PCI enabled but not tested it yet due to
> other goings on around here.
> 
> I flashed the card with the latest (last ?) update some time ago but I
> didn't do the SCSI if it needs to be done seperately.


Are you sure? I think this was many yaers ago, now the SCSI and PPC stuff 
are in only one flash.


> I looked into why I needed ElfLoadSeg in the Startup-Sequence of the
> small
> direct Linux boot partition and not on my ususal boot. The reason is that
> the small boot partition doesn't have support for the CV-64/3d, no
> cgxsytem.library.  It appears the library loads the ppc.library and fires
> up the PPC. Move the cgxsystem.library out of the way and boot ADOS in
> AGA
> and the bootstrap won't work - assuming nothing else loads the
> ppc.library.


I do the same, a small partition containing C:, S:, LIBS: and the kernel 
stuff. In S: there is a simple startup-sequence which only contains the 
bootstrap command, not even setpatch is loaded. Using PPCInstall or 
ElfLoadSeg is not necessary.


> Are you sure about PPCInstall vs. ElfLoadSeg ?  I got the idea from the
> documentation PPCInstall was a temporary measure and ElfLoadSeg was the
> proper way.


Hmm... My PPCInstall.doc says:

   PPCInstall

   (Not necessary for BlizzardPPCs where the ppc.library
    is in the flashrom. Only remuve ElfLoadSeg if you
    installed it)

   This program loads the ppc.library which enables the
   ELF DOS patch. The functionality of ElfLoadSeg is
   now inside of the ppc.library since V46.

   Put PPCInstall >NIL: in your s:user-startup if you
   always want to start the ppc.library.


Ciao, Renè