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

[Frank]

Interesting, I didn't know that. So I can write my own cli and
jump to it from LinuxBios instead of booting Linux?
--- Greg Watson  wrote:
> 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]
> > > "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi
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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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