From: Wookey <wookey@wookware.org>
To: linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Celinux-dev] CELF Project Proposal- Refactoring Qi, lightweight bootloader
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:49:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091221204908.GR7001@dream.aleph1.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200912202045.37159.rob@landley.net>
+++ Rob Landley [2009-12-20 20:45 -0600]:
> On Thursday 17 December 2009 02:31:36 Matt Hsu wrote:
>
> I still live in hope that somebody will split the first part (coreboot) out
> from the second part (grub) in embedded bootloaders.
blob took this approach a long time ago (started 2000-ish) trying very
hard not to do any more than was needed in the normal version, and
having a uploadable extra part for interactive stuff but was only
adopted on a fairly small number of platforms.
Popular bootloaders always grow more bits and more hardware support
until they are no longer small. It's a very difficult trend to resist,
although good architecture helps.
The codebase is still there: http://sourceforge.net/projects/blob/
I always thought it was good code (especially since I've had far too
much to do with bootldr (from familiar) for the last few years (yuk!)).
Wookey
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-21 20:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-17 8:31 CELF Project Proposal- Refactoring Qi, lightweight bootloader Matt Hsu
2009-12-17 9:21 ` Andy Green
2009-12-21 19:30 ` [Celinux-dev] " Wolfgang Denk
2009-12-21 19:32 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-12-21 20:17 ` Andy Green
2009-12-21 21:38 ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-12-21 22:38 ` Andy Green
2009-12-21 23:17 ` Wookey
2009-12-21 23:19 ` Robert Schwebel
2009-12-22 8:22 ` Andy Green
2009-12-22 11:12 ` Robert Schwebel
2009-12-22 22:23 ` Andy Green
2009-12-22 23:28 ` Robert Schwebel
2009-12-23 8:38 ` Andy Green
2009-12-23 8:56 ` Robert Schwebel
2009-12-23 9:29 ` Andy Green
2009-12-23 9:43 ` Robert Schwebel
2009-12-27 7:27 ` Rob Landley
2009-12-27 10:09 ` Andy Green
2009-12-28 0:21 ` Rob Landley
2009-12-28 11:33 ` Andy Green
2009-12-27 7:17 ` Rob Landley
2009-12-27 9:54 ` Andy Green
2009-12-27 23:15 ` Rob Landley
2009-12-28 10:27 ` Andy Green
2009-12-28 19:57 ` Peter Korsgaard
2009-12-28 20:20 ` Andy Green
2009-12-29 4:25 ` Rob Landley
2009-12-29 11:11 ` Andy Green
2009-12-17 23:13 ` Tim Bird
2009-12-21 2:45 ` [Celinux-dev] " Rob Landley
2009-12-21 5:51 ` Matt Hsu
2009-12-21 8:00 ` Rob Landley
2009-12-21 9:54 ` Andy Green
2009-12-21 20:49 ` Wookey [this message]
2009-12-23 2:28 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-12-23 8:48 ` Andy Green
2009-12-29 13:13 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-12-29 13:36 ` Andy Green
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