Linux/VAX boot protocol

[Toby Thain]

On 26/11/12 4:28 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 06:28:34AM +0000, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki
>> <macro at linux-mips.org>  wrote:
>>> ...
>>>   In the past I did some work on our `mopd' implementation (added ELF file
>>> format support among others -- to support plain "vmlinux" images on the
>>> DECstation), so perhaps I could dust off some old knowledge in that area
>>> if that helped you.  OTOH I have never had a real need to look into our
>>> early bootstrap code outlined in the note above, so unless someone else
>>> steps in we'd have to explore that area from scratch.
>>
>> I'm trying to understand the boot process so that I can emulate the
>> relevant parts in QEMU.
>
> FWIW: I've got a working mop setup for my vaxstation, with a TI pandaboard
> acting as the server, so if you need anything testing I'm happy to give it a
> go!

I too have a working mopd based netboot for a MicroVAX II. I did however 
have to patch mopd to get this working (although I may not have been 
working from the most recent sources).

I have put my changes on github: https://github.com/qu1j0t3/mopd

Where *is* the authoritative source code?

--Toby

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