From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Denk Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 19:46:26 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] M-Systems Disk on Chip and U-boot In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Sep 2004 10:24:26 EDT." <1094135066.41372d1aaba03@webmail.cam.org> Message-ID: <20040902174631.F0865C109F@atlas.denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Dear Philip, in message <1094135066.41372d1aaba03@webmail.cam.org> you wrote: > > I think you could only use U-Boot to load a (non-GPL) loader that uses the DoC. > It this a correct assumption? Yes. You can load any type of software, including completely proprietary stuff. > Wasn't there a section in the manual (U-Boot) about this, using U-Boot to load > non-GPL applications [i.e. Whatever happened to Chapter 8] Chapter 8 is a new chapter I intended to add about building and using Linux kernel modules. I just never found time to add any ral content. This has nothing to do with U-Boot. > Also, what's the status for "standalone applications", i.e the U-Boot resources > mentioned in 5.12 (console I/O, memory allocation, ...)? What do you mean what is the status? It's a standard feature like TFTP download or serial console support... It has always been there, and always will be. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd at denx.de Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you. - Terry Pratchett, _Small Gods_