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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: programming ppcboot onto an sbc8260 with a vision ice
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 16:28:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011204152821.E36EBF9C0@denx.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Dec 2001 10:07:14 EST." <5.1.0.14.2.20011204095651.01b2b6b8@falcon.si.com>


In message <5.1.0.14.2.20011204095651.01b2b6b8@falcon.si.com>
Jerry Van Baren wrote:
>
> I've used the EST vxWorks-based BootROM (disclaimer: not the latest
> version) and it is nearly functional... if you use vxWorks, it works just
> fine.  If you warp your non-vxWorks world just right, it also works
> fine.  But there comes a point where you simply get sick of living in a
> warped world, throw away vxWorks, and load PPCBoot.  PPCBoot is MUCH easier

BTW: you can use PPCBoot and still continue to use VxWorks  as  RTOS;
PPCBoot  can  boot  more  things than just Linux - although that's is
main purpose :-)

Wolfgang Denk

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-04 15:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-03 19:39 programming ppcboot onto an sbc8260 with a vision ice Andrew Dixon
2001-12-03 20:08 ` Peter Desnoyers
2001-12-03 20:38   ` Andrew Dixon
2001-12-03 22:11     ` Jerry Van Baren
2001-12-04 14:49       ` Andrew Dixon
2001-12-04 15:07         ` Jerry Van Baren
2001-12-04 15:28           ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2001-12-04 15:25         ` Wolfgang Denk

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