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Subject: Re: [Xenomai] Fwd: Kernel Compilation Problems
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To: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
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On 01/31/2014 09:46 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 09:21:09PM +0100, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
>> U-boot is the de-factor standard for booting Linux on anything else than
>> an x86. So, the effort is probably not a complete waste: you will not
>> have to learn how to use U-boot for the next embedded board. Besides,
>> U-boot is well documented.
> 
> grub2 is used on a fair number of systems other than x86 too.
> 
> For embedded systems u-boot is very common though.

I stand corrected, I should have said "U-boot is the de-facto standard
for booting Linux on embedded boards".

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                                                                Gilles.