25 Jun
2003
25 Jun
'03
3:15 p.m.
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Frank wrote:
u-boot's weakness is that it primarily supports arm and ppc processors. There is only one x86 board in the source tree and it won't even compile! If u-boot had more support for x86 platforms, it would give linuxbios a serious run for it's money.
yeah but why do it this way. With the openbios guys, we've ended up splitting the work: linuxbios does the cruft, openbios does the forth stuff. IF uboot wants that command interpreter, why not combine forces and make the CLI a payload, and linuxbios sucks in all that good u-boot cpu stuff.
seems like we'd get twice as far.
ron