From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 08:27:00 -0700 From: Tom Rini To: Michael Sokolov Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: CONFIG_GENERIC_PPC32 Message-ID: <20020411152700.GC15663@opus.bloom.county> References: <20020410151741.GD26754@opus.bloom.county> <0204110350.AA27250@ivan.Harhan.ORG> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <0204110350.AA27250@ivan.Harhan.ORG> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 08:50:09PM -0700, Michael Sokolov wrote: > > Tom Rini wrote: > > > From PPCBoot/StarMON/other linux knowing firmware, yes. > > Please don't call StarMON "linux knowing firmware", it isn't. It knows 0 about > Linux. For firmware to know about any one OS is a discrimination against users > wanting to run some other OS or write their own, and is unacceptable to me. I > still believe that every single person buying a computer should write his own > operating system. Okay: >>From PPCBoot[1]/other linux knowing firmware, and StarMON + ppc-boot-linux. -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ [1]: I suspect PPCBoot as well can handle other OS's, but I don't know for certain... ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/