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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Dan Brown <dan_brown@ieee.org>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: DOCBoot update
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 13:44:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1104846254.13016.293.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41DA9D43.70807@ieee.org>

On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 08:42 -0500, Dan Brown wrote:
> Balint Cristian wrote:
> 
> >Just a undocumented Question:
> >
> > Can please tell me if run on ARM/xscale not on intel only ?
> >If not, it is difficult to adapt ?, or you already have some plans for this.
> >  
> >
> DOCBoot only runs on intel hardware.  In fact it only runs on intel 
> hardware with a somewhat standard PC configuration, namely a standard 
> BIOS which supplies certain functionality.  Also, the Linux bootloading 
> process is very specific to i386.  I would guess that a variant of 
> DOCBoot for ARM/xscale would probably be a complete rewrite.  Sorry :(

You'd probably do better to add DiskOnChip support to RedBoot.

-- 
dwmw2

  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-04 13:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-03 18:53 DOCBoot update Dan Brown
2005-01-04  9:19 ` Balint Cristian
2005-01-04 13:42   ` Dan Brown
2005-01-04 13:44     ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2005-01-04 14:01       ` Balint Cristian
2005-01-04 14:31         ` David Woodhouse

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