Re: hpcboot for Linux

"Valeriy E. Ushakov" <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:30:55 +0300

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.hpcsh
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 13:32:16 +0000, james stanley wrote:

> I know you have written a bootloader that can load NetBSD that works
> on my 620lx.  How would I go about getting it to boot Linux?
> E.g. Is it just a config file, do I need to convert vmlinux, do I
> need to edit the source, etc.


I don't know how linux kernel is linked for hpcsh.  NetBSD uses mmu
bypass (P1) region - so the kernel is linked at 0x8c001000.
If linux uses P1 too, chances are it should "just work".

SY, Uwe
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