From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] CELF open project proposal Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 07:17:30 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: References: <4B15AAFE.4030705@am.sony.com> <8bd0f97a0912021336xf1ef7ebmfb502efabec187cb@mail.gmail.com> <4B16E03D.3000202@am.sony.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="-1688546212-537036160-1259824664=:10116" Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Aras Vaichas Cc: linux-embedded This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. ---1688546212-537036160-1259824664=:10116 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="iso-8859-1"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 3 Dec 2009, Aras Vaichas wrote: > 2009/12/3 Tim Bird >> >> Mike Frysinger wrote: >>> i know your e-mail intro states "embedded Linux" as does the wiki, but >>> i'm gonna take a stab anyways. =A0does this apply to Linux only and not >>> open source boot loaders (like U-Boot) ? >> >> It applies to anything in the "embedded Linux" ecosystem. =A0This >> would very much include open source boot loaders like U-Boot. > > I've got a list of "nice to haves" > > Any boot time speed up work. > > Support for 2nd stage booting from NAND with newer filesystems such as > UBIFS. i.e. simplified UBI/UBIFS read/write/format code in a small > footprint. Is it heretical to suggest a BSD licence for that too, to encourage=20 adoption into other bootloaders? Or at least LGPL or the=20 "GPL with linking exception" licence that libstdc++/eCos/JFFS2 have. > TFTP server in a boot loader (U-boot or other). i.e. allows you to > push a firmware upgrade image to a device. I do know of a few of these > but they are not open sourced. OpenFirmware copes with this quite nicely (or with http download, for that = matter). You can even flash a whole bunch of devices at once with=20 multicast over the wireless. Somewhere there's a photo of me with a few=20 hundred OLPC laptops laid out across the floor of main hall in a Mongolian = school, all sucking up their NAND image over the wireless. The world needs more OpenFirmware :) --=20 dwmw2 ---1688546212-537036160-1259824664=:10116--