FYI: rudimentary loader for ppcbug-based systems

[Peter Grehan]

> The differences in the alpha platforms are mainly variations on how
> the PCI bus is accessed and are more akin to the differences on the
> x86 between using ACPI and pcibios to access the pci bus.  The low
> level code such as what NetBSD would put in machdep.c and locore.s is
> the same across all alphas.

 But there's still a startling array of different h/w and processor revs,
which is why I think there is a reasonable chance of getting a GENERIC ppc
kernel.

 FreeBSD's loader can help hide a lot of the differences that would normally
be in locore/machdep.

later,

Peter.