From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Gatliff Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Add Alternative Log Buffer Support for printk Messages Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:19:14 -0600 Message-ID: <492C5DC2.9040402@billgatliff.com> References: <20081125135519.038abf23@zod.rchland.ibm.com> <492C573E.9030309@billgatliff.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Matt Sealey Cc: Grant Erickson , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Stefan Roese , Wolfgang Denx , linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org Matt Sealey wrote: > Yes, there's FirmWorks, CodeGen SmartFirmware, IBM SLOF and OpenBIOS.. > they're all linked from the OpenBIOS website (along with a bunch of the > documentation from http://www.openfirmware.org in more-readable formats > like PDF) > > http://www.openbios.org/ > > > But here's the real question; why do you need an opensource > implementation? Curiosity? That, and I prefer Free *ware whenever that's an option. :) Nothing against the commercial alternatives, of course. But I'm already doing my own heavy lifting, because my platforms are all full-custom with very limited production runs. Since I'm into the guts of all my code anyway, I'm not inclined to outsource a bootloader development effort. Just trying to figure out where the walls of this "sandbox" are. I've been aware of the concept of Open Firmware for a while, but haven't really looked into it before now--- mostly because my impression until now was that the available implementations were both closed-source, and not supporting embedded, non-PPC targets like ARM. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff bgat@billgatliff.com