Syslinux - Aug 2007 - Does syslinux support IBM's Power (e.g., powerpc, Power 5, Power 6) CPU?

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...

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