Re: Pure 64 bootloaders

[David S. Miller]

From: Jim Gifford <maillist@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 09:33:26 -0700

> For the Sparc64 builds, I'm starting to look at using OBP to do the booting.

OBP cannot boot because it doesn't understand the ext2
filesystem, and therefore cannot get at the image.

The only thing you can do is netboot kernel images converted
to a.out format using the elf2aout tool.

Stop fighting city hall and work on fixing SILO to support
a 64-bit build if you want, instead of all of these hacks.
:-)
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