From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Bob Beck Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Booting Linux on a Custom PPC Board From: Wolfgang Denk Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-reply-to: Your message of "02 Mar 2004 12:58:54 +1400." <1078181934.4198.20.camel@budweiser> Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 00:51:44 +0100 Message-Id: <20040302235149.72299C0655@atlas.denx.de> Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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 -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd@denx.de Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space. -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/