2006/525: New Boot Sparc

[Hitendra Zhangada]

Jerry Gilliam wrote:
> 
> I am sponsoring this project as a fast-track on behalf of Jan
> Setje-Eilers and John Johnson.  The case timer is set to 8/7/2007.

FYI.  Added FWARC to the mailing list.  One comment below.


> 
> A new node (/packages/boot-properties) will be added to the OBP device tree by
> the booter which contains these properties.

Is there a reason to create new node under /packages instead of
under /chosen node?  /chosen is defined by IEEE 1275 standard
to contain properties such as "bootpath", "bootargs" etc.
It seems like /chosen node is a better place to add the new node.

> 
> In addition to the above compatibility properties, a couple of new properties 
> are
> needed:
> 
> "bootarchive"		boot archive path (as opposed to "bootpath", the root
> 			file system path)
> "elfheader-address"	address of kernel ELF header, used by krtld in lieu of
> 			the bootaux vector passed up via the second-stage booter
> "elfheader-length"	length of kernel ELF header
> "archive-fstype"	fstype of boot archive
> 
> 


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