[Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: LinuxBIOS for ARM; or Merging LinuxBIOS with BLOB]]

[Bari Ari]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: "LinuxBIOS for ARM" or "Merging LinuxBIOS with 
BLOB"]
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 03:04:41 -0400
From: Thomas Chen 
To: Bari Ari 
CC: lart 
References:

that is not true.... i have armboot booting uclinux on
atmel eb40, oki  and a customed dev board....  quite nice...
i looked at blob myself and thought armboot was much easier to work with

Bari Ari wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: "LinuxBIOS for ARM" or "Merging LinuxBIOS with BLOB"
> Date: 26 Sep 2002 14:01:56 +0800
> From: ollie lho 
> To: Nicholas Mistry 
> CC: [e-mail]
> References:  
>
> On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 13:13, Nicholas Mistry wrote:
> > Just for the record, i have worked extensively with blob.  Especially
> > during the StrongARM port of linux.
> >
> > The IPAQ 36xx, 37xx, 38xx handhelds are based off the Intel
> > Assabet/Neponset Development platform.  The assabet is a StrongARM 1110
> > chip, and the neponset a 1111 chip.
> >
> > I currently own one of these, and i have to say its a nice setup.  
> > After i
> > got my IPAQ 3870, i put the Assabet/Neponset hardware asside.
> >
> > BLOB is a great little bootloader.  It has definitely come a long way in
> > the past year.  The one thing that i disliked about it was the mechanics
> > for updating flash.  But i am sure they have worked that out by now.
>
> Do you know if Blob can load uClinux ?? I found that most of the ARM 
> bootloaders only support ARM-Linux. (Am I wrong ??)
>
> Ollie
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LinuxBIOS for ARM; or Merging LinuxBIOS with BLOB

[ollie lho]

On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 15:22, Bari Ari wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: "LinuxBIOS for ARM" or "Merging LinuxBIOS with 
> BLOB"]
> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 03:04:41 -0400
> From: Thomas Chen 
> To: Bari Ari 
> CC: lart 
> References:
>
> that is not true.... i have armboot booting uclinux on
> atmel eb40, oki  and a customed dev board....  quite nice...
> i looked at blob myself and thought armboot was much easier to work with

Do you have any patch avaliable ?? The code on CVS only have support for 720T
and 920T. I am porting it to Integrator MB and CM940T.

Ollie

LinuxBIOS for ARM; or Merging LinuxBIOS with BLOB

On 26 Sep 2002, ollie lho wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 15:22, Bari Ari wrote:
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: "LinuxBIOS for ARM" or "Merging LinuxBIOS with
> > BLOB"]
> > Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 03:04:41 -0400
> > From: Thomas Chen 
> > To: Bari Ari 
> > CC: lart 
> > References:
> >
> > that is not true.... i have armboot booting uclinux on
> > atmel eb40, oki  and a customed dev board....  quite nice...
> > i looked at blob myself and thought armboot was much easier to work with
>
> Do you have any patch avaliable ?? The code on CVS only have support for 720T
> and 920T. I am porting it to Integrator MB and CM940T.
>
> Ollie

I think it's most of the same under bootloader,most of bootlaoder
didn't enable MMU in booting.

CK.