LinuxBios PPC-support.. U-Boot project

Frank frannk_m1 at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 25 13:23:00 CEST 2003


Very good idea...
--- ron minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Frank wrote:
> 
> > u-boot's weakness is that it primarily supports arm and ppc
> > processors. There is only one x86 board in the source tree
> and
> > it won't even compile! If u-boot had more support for x86
> > platforms, it would give linuxbios a serious run for it's
> money.
> 
> yeah but why do it this way. With the openbios guys, we've
> ended up 
> splitting the work: linuxbios does the cruft, openbios does
> the forth 
> stuff. IF uboot wants that command interpreter, why not
> combine forces and 
> make the CLI a payload, and linuxbios sucks in all that good
> u-boot cpu 
> stuff. 
> 
> seems like we'd get twice as far.
> 
> ron
> 


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