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Does syslinux support IBM's Power (e.g., powerpc, Power 5, Power 6) CPU?
I know syslinux supports x86 and x86_64 right now, and syslinux does
not support x64(Itanium).

Now my question is: Does syslinux support IBM's Power (e.g., powerpc,
Power 5, Power 6) CPU? I assume the answer is No, because syslinux has
a lot of assemble code (e.g., ldlinux.asm) which is not portable to
other CPU architect...

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Re: Does syslinux support IBM's Power (e.g., powerpc, Power 5, Power 6) CPU? [ In reply to ]
Bo Xie wrote:
> I know syslinux supports x86 and x86_64 right now, and syslinux does
> not support x64(Itanium).
>
> Now my question is: Does syslinux support IBM's Power (e.g., powerpc,
> Power 5, Power 6) CPU? I assume the answer is No, because syslinux has
> a lot of assemble code (e.g., ldlinux.asm) which is not portable to
> other CPU architect...
>

Not just that, but booting is heavily firmware-dependent. x86 is
*usually* PC-BIOS-based, but doesn't have to be; other architectures
have other firmware architectures which the bootloader has to deal with.

-hpa

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Re: Does syslinux support IBM's Power (e.g., powerpc, Power 5, Power 6) CPU? [ In reply to ]
For power/ppc use yaboot.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: syslinux-bounces@zytor.com
> [mailto:syslinux-bounces@zytor.com] On Behalf Of H. Peter Anvin
> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 8:46 PM
> To: For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa
> Subject: Re: [syslinux] Does syslinux support IBM's Power
> (e.g., powerpc, Power 5, Power 6) CPU?
>
>
> Bo Xie wrote:
> > I know syslinux supports x86 and x86_64 right now, and syslinux does
> > not support x64(Itanium).
> >
> > Now my question is: Does syslinux support IBM's Power
> (e.g., powerpc,
> > Power 5, Power 6) CPU? I assume the answer is No, because
> syslinux has
> > a lot of assemble code (e.g., ldlinux.asm) which is not portable to
> > other CPU architect...
> >
>
> Not just that, but booting is heavily firmware-dependent. x86 is
> *usually* PC-BIOS-based, but doesn't have to be; other architectures
> have other firmware architectures which the bootloader has to
> deal with.
>
> -hpa
>
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