On 04/11/08 21:04 -0500, Gregg C Levine wrote:
Hello! As always I am looking at new ideas. One that has occurred to me on numerous occasions is that of the idea of using Linux as a boot loader.
I know it has been discussed on several occasions on this list, however I don't recall what was resolved about it. What has been resolved about it? And on what machines does it work? (This includes chipsets.)
LAB is still a going concern - we have a number of platforms in buildrom that can build a LAB payload. The problem with LAB that it requires a lot of effort for each platform, so the overall quality of the LAB payloads depends on if somebody is actively working that particular platform. With the progress of the kernel and the userland stuff, LAB payloads have a tendency to bitrot rather quickly. New support and development is always welcome. You might also want to look at kexecboot:
http://git.linuxtogo.org/?p=thesing/kexecboot.git;a=tree
Which could be a reasonable replacement for the uclibc/busybox/kexec rootfs in buildrom right now.
Jordan