"LinuxBIOS for ARM" or "Merging LinuxBIOS with BLOB"

ollie lho ollie at sis.com.tw
Thu Sep 26 01:50:01 CEST 2002


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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