Instead of addressing the "grubby" details if
you actually visit Terra
Soft's website, the people who developed Yellow Dog Linux
the supported
hardware for the current version of YDL is posted:
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/support/hardware/
breakdown/
Essentially the hardware are all varieties of PowerPC
systems. The
architecture is so vastly different between PowerPC and
Intel based
compatibles that even the order of how data is both read and
stored in
the computer registers are reversed! That is merely one
distinction.
It cannot even be compared to how some human languages read
from left
to right and others from right to left. Believe me, the
distinctions
of the architectures if one were to seriously try to
comprehend it
would take several upper level computer science courses over
at least
three semesters and that would be a mere introduction
regarding what is
going on.
As you don't have a PowerPC system perhaps some technical
references
may satisfy your curiosity and assist you in considering
whether you
wish to explore this side of computer research and
processing. You can
check here:
http://btobsearch.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/resu
lts.asp?
WRD=PowerPC&z=y&btob=Y
The reference:
The Linux Kernel Primer: A Top-Down Approach for x86 and
PowerPC
Architectures
Claudia Salzberg Rodriguez, Gordon Fischer, Steven Smolski
may sate you.
By the way, this area of Barnes & Nobles is dedicated to
Professional
and Technical works; it's a nice resource. Not as neat as
having
access to all the reference works of all the libraries on
the planet,
but it's pretty cool.
Best wishes ...
On Feb 28, 2006, at 5:52 AM, Raghu wrote:
> Hello All,
> I do not have a Power processor machine. After reading
> the "README" etc I was not very clear about
the
> architecture and wanted to check if I can get more
> detais.
>
> 1. There are not much platform specific initialization
> code i.e. Power G3, G4, G5 etc specific code in yaboot
>
> 2. Is "yaboot" something like
"GRUB" i.e. after
> poweron on x86 based systems BIOS takes control, loads
> GRUB which in turn has the option to boot strap either
> windows or Linux ?
>
> 3. Is it like platform specific code for G3, G4 based
> machines actually launches "yaboot" which
in turn
> reads the MBR from disk driver and loads the Linux
> kernel ?
>
> Thanks in Advance.
> Warm Regards,
> Raghu.
>
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