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 <gwatson at lanl.gov> 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 <hansolofalcon at worldnet.att.net> 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 hansolofalcon at worldnet.att.net
> >> 
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> >>  > -----Original Message-----
> >>  > From: linuxbios-admin at clustermatic.org
> [mailto:linuxbios-
> >>  > admin at clustermatic.org] On Behalf Of ron minnich
> >>  > Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 5:47 PM
> >>  > To: David Eliasson
> >>  > Cc: linuxbios at clustermatic.org
> >>  > 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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