Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:37:33 +0100 From: Rafal Jaworowski <raj@semihalf.com> To: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@freebsd.org>, Perforce Change Reviews <perforce@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: PERFORCE change 135517 for review Message-ID: <47B9B44D.9040604@semihalf.com> In-Reply-To: <755B845B-F43E-463D-8D87-7596A8C462F8@mac.com> References: <200802162141.m1GLfgkj048217@repoman.freebsd.org> <47B75EB3.2020001@semihalf.com> <504560A3-EABB-4896-8B3E-C7FC89F31EFB@mac.com> <47B84D9B.4010903@semihalf.com> <ABEEBD0D-6693-4448-8D2F-679F37367832@mac.com> <47B8A8CD.3040707@semihalf.com> <755B845B-F43E-463D-8D87-7596A8C462F8@mac.com>
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Marcel Moolenaar wrote: >> Another comment: please note that killing WITH_UBOOT introduces another >> problem: now both sys/boot/powerpc/uboot/loader and >> sys/boot/powerpc/ofw/loader are built during buildworld, which may be >> good >> from one point of view, but there's no control over which of the >> loader file >> is taken during installworld: it seems the last one (u-boot's in this >> case) >> overwrites the previous... > > Oh, yeah. We need to rename the U-Boot loader... > > More comments: with 1GB, the API signature is not found. What we > probably should do is have the platform-specific entry set a > hint, which can be based on the address of the global data. In > other words: on PowerPC in start.S, we save r2 and use that to > control where we're going to search for the API signature. > Ah, so the lowest 256MB constraint which I mentioned in this other email must have been removed. I like your hint discovery, very nice :-) Rafal
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