Single user mode on G5!

Rafal Jaworowski raj at semihalf.com
Tue Jul 22 12:29:12 UTC 2008


>> 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.

Sounds good.

Rafal


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