19 Dec
2003
19 Dec
'03
4:20 p.m.
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Greg Watson wrote:
I would like to see this from the PPC perspective. Since neither filo nor etherboot work on PPC, this might be a good way of booting from, say, a disk. Which would be nice.
a linux kernel, with a small initrd with modules and kexec, is just about the ideal boot loader setup. cwlinux.com has been selling this configuration for some time. Setting up the same thing on PPC should be easy.
We have all the bits we need for a very capable bootloader, and have for 3 years. The only thing missing has been a big enough FLASH part. If the FLASH gets big enough soon enough, our problems will be solved for us.
ron