RE: LinuxBios PPC-support.. U-Boot project

[Greg Watson]

Yes, and the nice thing about the linuxbios architecture is that the 
CLI can just be a payload, so you can have any CLI that you want - 
forth, tcl, whatever. No changes are required to linuxbios at all.

Greg

At 6:03 PM -0700 24/6/03, Frank wrote:
> As I said before, If you want to convert the u-boot users, you
> have to provide an option to go to a command line instead of
> just unconditionally booting linux. Getting to a command line is
> not rocket science...
>
> --- Gregg C Levine  wrote:
> > Hello again from Gregg C Levine
> >  I agree in principle Ron, but I am curious as to why they
> >  thought
> >  that. After all, Linux BIOS does more for a system then
> >  U-Boot. It's
> >  my guess that after seeing the appropriate demonstrations that
> >  group
> >  will change their minds, collectively or otherwise. For that
> >  matter,
> >  Greg W, I applaud your efforts regarding the PPC port.
> > Gregg C Levine [e-mail]
> >
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> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [e-mail] [mailto:linuxbios-
> > > [e-mail]] On Behalf Of ron minnich
> > > Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 5:47 PM
> > > To: David Eliasson
> > > Cc: [e-mail]
> > > Subject: Re: LinuxBios PPC-support.. U-Boot project
> > >
> > > On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, David Eliasson wrote:
> > > > I read on the linuxbios webpage about PPC-support.. Aren t
> >
> > you
> >  guys
> > > > aware of the U-boot project?
> > >
> > > Sure.
> > > > They've been running the GNU Linux kernel 2.4.19 and 2.4
> >
> > 21 in
> >  firmware
> > > > for a while now.. Maybe I m just missing something, but I
> >
> > thought
> >  some
> > > > merging of efforts might be in place..
> > >
> > > I tried to have a conversation with somebody from u-boot
> >
> > about some
> >  sort
> > > of merge, but it never got beyond the "why u-boot is better
> >
> > than
> > > linuxbios" stage, so I dropped it.
> > >
> > > ron
> > >
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