Re: SoC projects for NetBSD/sgimips

On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Martin Husemann wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:33:35PM +1100, Max Matveev wrote:
>> IIRC sgi prom cannot grok ISO and expects sgi boot header on CD, it
>> loads sash from the volume header and then sash loads Irix kernel from
>> efs partition on CD.
>
> Yes, we prepend a volume header to the ISO. I don't realy care if the kernel
> is in the volume header or the ISO part as long as it just works, but
> adjusting the available libsa ISO9660 support to find the iso part of the
> CD behind the volume header should be very simple and this makes the whole
> solution more flexible - now that we have accelerated X support, imagine
> a NetBSD destkop CD booting on O2 ;-}

 	Woo.. NetBSD/sgimips live cd :)

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