>
> : DECstations are not ARC compliant. A Linux port is in progress for
> DS3100/5000
> : but it is presently stuck at the boot loader stage. I ahve been trying to
> find
> : time to work on it, but haven't been very successful lately. I'm not sure
> if
> : anyone else is working on said beast.
>
> You've likely already thought about this, but have you considered
> using the boot loader from NetBSD? If it understands ufs (aka ffs)
> only (which is likely), then you could either boot off of a ffs
> partition for now, or use libe2fs. Heck, even MIPS/Linux is booting
> off of a FAT partition only at this time.
>
hmm, decstations pulls in the first 8kb of the hd as the boot loader.
how this works can be learned from either Mach3.0 or NetBSD. also
there is a definition of the prom interface. i belive the magnum is
very similar to the decstation in this respect....
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