From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3CB43E6F.4020804@embeddededge.com> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 09:30:23 -0400 From: Dan Malek MIME-Version: 1.0 To: benh@kernel.crashing.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Bootloader (Re: CONFIG_GENERIC_PPC32) References: <0204091952.AA24042@ivan.Harhan.ORG> <20020410102842.21408@mailhost.mipsys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: benh@kernel.crashing.org wrote: > Just for your information, I noticed the OpenBIOS folks .... A few embedded boards have done this in the past, in particular all of the Cogent Computer boards. The only advantage was for the few (one :-) PCI I/O boards that may have OF initialization roms. In all other cases I found it a PITA, because no one cares to write any documentation about how it runs on their boards. The response was "It's standard OF".....yeah, right. IMHO, if we would just standardize on ASCII bi_recs we would actually make some progress :-). If you want an OS in a boot rom, just flash Linux and get it over with. -- Dan ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/