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Date:      Sun, 9 Sep 2001 10:17:00 -0700
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        ia64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ski port
Message-ID:  <20010909101700.A531@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010909174317.V406-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
References:  <20010909000427.A33296@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20010909174317.V406-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>

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On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 05:44:02PM +0100, Doug Rabson wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> > We're currently not really interested in userland code, so we're
> > going to run ski in "raw" mode anyway. I should be able to hack
> > something together that allows us to work on a real EFI bootloader.
> > With a combination of fake and real ACPI entries we should be able
> > to boot a kernel as if it was running on real hardware, right?
> >
> 
> That would probably be pretty useful. It sounds like a *lot* of work
> though. EFI is pretty extensive.

Yes, it would be a lot of work. And I can imagine that the ski owners
are not going to keep the feature if it wasn't done right. I think
it's good to have. I just want to make sure I spend my time well and
not waste it on a feature that will never complete and/or won't be
used.

Another thought struck me. As soon as we have our own toolchain, we
probably will use DBX as the debugging format and not dwarf. I'd
better make sure that ski supports DBX if we want it to be as useful
then as it is now.

-- 
 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net

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