From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Dan Malek <dan@embeddededge.com>
Cc: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>,
Colin.Helliwell@Zarlink.Com, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: Compressed kernels
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 00:44:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031125234404.GG11047@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FBD4529.3070201@embeddededge.com>
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 05:50:17PM -0500, Dan Malek wrote:
> Just to keep us busy, there are people that chose options
> other than u-boot :-) For embedded systems that are really sensitive
> to boot time and amount of flash used, they may only have minimal
> instructions for processor initialization and then jump to the
> compressed kernel image. I'm not going to discuss boot roms any
> further (yes, I use u-boot every chance I get).
... the lesson I learned about firmware is it's usually not very well
tested because there are only few applications (that is usually
operating systems) running it. Phear da firmware ...
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-25 23:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-20 9:10 Compressed kernels Colin.Helliwell
2003-11-20 15:21 ` Dan Malek
2003-11-20 21:02 ` Ralf Baechle
2003-11-20 21:42 ` Dan Malek
2003-11-20 22:33 ` Wolfgang Denk
2003-11-20 22:50 ` Dan Malek
2003-11-25 23:44 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2003-11-22 2:41 ` Ralf Baechle
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-03-31 8:35 Compressed Kernels JP Foster
2005-03-31 8:42 ` Robin H. Johnson
2005-03-31 16:24 ` Pete Popov
2005-04-01 9:05 ` JP
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