Single user mode on G5!

[Nathan Whitehorn]

Rafal Jaworowski wrote:
> Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>   
>> Patches at http://banshee.uchicago.edu/~nwhitehorn/g5.diff. Beware that
>> kernels with INVARIANTS enabled do not run on G5s because of some issues
>> writing to the console in early boot and that the patch breaks building
>> loader, and thus world. These should be easy to fix, and will be fixed
>> once the system is working.
>>     
>
> Fantastic news, congratulations!
>
> I have one very general comment regarding naming scheme, which isn't even
> strictly related to your G5 work but the existing G3/4 port too. There is the
> 'OEA' prefix used, which came from NetBSD, but it seems rather unfortunate to
> me: Operating Environment Architecure is a generic term for certain layer in
> PowerPC definition nomenclature, and each implementation variant of the CPU
> has actually its own OEA defined... I think it would be better to change it to
> something more meaningful.
>
> Rafal
>   
How about aim(64)? It's the name of the directory for the Book-S support 
anyway. We should probably also start thinking about a full 64-bit port 
soon. With support for the 64-bit MMU stuff required for bridge mode, we 
should end up with a lot of shared code.
-Nathan