OFW & hello.elf

[Robert Millan]

For the record, this happened because I hadn't run "disable-security" yet.  My
laptop was in a state of "half" security that allowed me to get an OFW prompt
but not boot unsigned images.

On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 09:40:46PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> It appears that the sample "hello world" program [1] provided with OFW is not
> working on latest stable revision.  At least, it didn't work for my G1G1 unit
> with Q2D07.  When running it with "boot" command, I just get:
> 
> ok boot disk:\hello.elf
> Boot device: /usb/disk:\hello.elf  Arguments:
> [ nothing printed, no prompt ]
> 
> It works fine when using latest SVN in qemu / pc-serial build, though.  I
> find this really strange, because I got reports [2] that ELF images are
> indeed working on XO, although I don't know which hardware/firmware versions.
> 
> Also, I'm not sure if this is a loading problem with ELF format or with the
> OFW callback interface, since Linux images seem to differ in both things with
> hello.elf.
> 
> Perhaps someone else can try hello.elf and see if it works?
> 
> TIA
> 
> [1] svn co svn://openbios.org/openfirmware/clients && make -C clients/lib/x86/
> 
> [2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-01/msg00227.html
> 
> -- 
> Robert Millan
> 
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Robert Millan

<GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call!
<DRM> What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak?
(as seen on /.)