[syslinux] Does syslinux support IBM's Power (e.g., powerpc, Power 5, Power 6) CPU?

[Egan Ford]

For power/ppc use yaboot.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: syslinux-bounces at zytor.com 
> [mailto:syslinux-bounces at 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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