This is an interesting writeup (see link). I think they think coreboot does lots of BIOS stuff.
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andy Green andy@openmoko.com Date: Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:08 AM Subject: Re: Merging Qi with coreboot? To: Troy Benjegerdes hozer@hozed.org Cc: devel@lists.openmoko.org, rminnich@gmail.com
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Somebody in the thread at some point said:
| I'd like to understand the motivation for Qi.. it really seems like it's | just a "YABL" (yet another boot loader). Why can't U-boot be made to
There's some explanation of why we moved off U-Boot here
http://git.openmoko.org/?p=qi.git;a=blob;f=README;h=198507c717cc8b5f8f72250f...
| boot "really fast", or if speed is the primary motivation, wouldn't it | make more sense to leverage the work begin done on Coreboot for x86? | (cold boot to linux console in 3 seconds on x86 hardware)
x86 and s3c device boot are very different, and we don't need to take care about a lot of PC-centric BIOS business.
- -Andy