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Date:      Mon, 12 Jan 1998 08:59:44 +0300 (MSK)
From:      Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@bog.msu.su>
To:        Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>
Cc:        freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG, Ian Logan <ian@nmsu.edu>, Chris Toshok <toshok@hungry.com>
Subject:   Re: How UltraAX boots
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.95.980112085721.12010A-100000@sunny.bog.msu.su>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980111042449.533O-100000@mozart.canonware.com>

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> 
> We're going to be facing a big bang problem as far as booting goes.  In
> order to get a serial console working, it looks like we'll have to have
> the UPA, PCI, and EBus code working, in addition to serial code (just need
> to port the serial code).  So, we'll pretty much have to make the whole
> motherboard work all at once, unless we can route the console through OBP
> (seems unlikely, or at least problematic). Yuck.
> 

	NetBSD/powerpc uses OBP(OpenFirmware) for all it's device drivers. 
You may want to look at it. 

	-Dima




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