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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: Bob Beck <beck@assurtech.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Booting Linux on a Custom PPC Board
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 00:51:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040302235149.72299C0655@atlas.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "02 Mar 2004 12:58:54 +1400." <1078181934.4198.20.camel@budweiser>


In message <1078181934.4198.20.camel@budweiser> you wrote:
>
> We are writing our own boot loader code for a couple of reasons.
>
> o U-Boot does not support our ethernet chip or serial chip.

And you really  think  that  developing  a  complete  new  bootloader
(including drivers for your ethernet and serial chips) is less effort
or easier that just adding these drivers to U-Boot?

C'me on!

> o VxWorks is in flash and we cannot change that in the near future.
> o The VxWorks boot loader initializes the hardware and
>   we run our custom boot loader from its shell.

U-Boot can boot VxWorks just fine.


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-02 23:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Iq959772845498.03218@webmail1.inner-21cn.com>
2004-02-26 17:24 ` ADS860 - unable to load kernel- Bad magic number Bob Beck
2004-02-27 16:32   ` Marius Groeger
2004-02-26 22:22     ` Bob Beck
2004-02-27 17:29       ` Marius Groeger
2004-02-26 22:38         ` Bob Beck
2004-02-27 19:32           ` Dan Malek
2004-02-27  1:32             ` Bob Beck
2004-02-27 21:05               ` Dan Malek
2004-03-01 22:58                 ` Booting Linux on a Custom PPC Board Bob Beck
2004-03-02 23:51                   ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2004-03-02 17:45                     ` Bob Beck

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