Re: Claim on IEEE1275

[Marco Gerards]

Hollis Blanchard <address@hidden> writes:

> As for yaboot, it does not run on Old World Macintosh, and described
> in the thread starting at
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2004-09/msg00014.html, I
> needed to use map on Old World. If it is *only* needed on Old World,
> then we could add another flag to grub_ieee1275_flags.

I agree.

>>> There is a "real-mode?" configuration variable, but I think that just
>>> specifies OF's translation mode, independent of the client's mode (see
>>> the IEEE1275 PowerPC and CHRP bindings). Knowing the value of that
>>> variable might be interesting but I wouldn't recommend changing it, as
>>> Apple firmware in particular is known to die a horrible death by
>>> mucking with one of those settings (I'm pretty sure it's
>>> "real-mode?").
>>
>> On my powerbook it is set to false, while it is set to true on the
>> pegasos.  So what do you suggest?  Using map when it is set to false?
>
> You said that both the PowerBook and the Pegasos work without the map
> call, so if the briQ works too then I think we should use the approach
> described above.

Right.  When will you be able to test this?

Thanks,
Marco