Re: ofwboot, why does it work?
Frank Wille <[email protected]> Sat, 20 Sep 2014 00:05:24 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.ofppc |
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| Organization | Privates Internet Ostwestfalen/Lippe e.V. |
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Artyom Tarasenko wrote: > Not just you. :-) But I thought IBM Firmware was based on the > FirmWorks firmware, so it should have exposed the bug... Maybe anybody with IBM hardware reads this and tests the latest ofwboot for us. >> Usually only a single block with 512 bytes is read into 'buf', so it >> uses the memory region only up to 0x1ff5c. > > What is the advantage of using a larger 'buf', btw? As far as I remember, I had to extend the block-buffer for reading the RDB partition table. The Amiga disk format allows block sizes up to 64K. -- Frank Wille