From: emanuel stiebler <emu@ecubics.com>
To: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: boot/simple in ROM?
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 12:29:38 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EA82D12.4010707@ecubics.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3EA81B3F.9080709@embeddededge.com
Dan Malek wrote:
>
> The old PPCBoot, and probably the new U-boot, kind of perform
> some of these functions. The reason I'm not a fan of doing this
> is if we make a change to the Linux calling sequence (which happens
> rarely) you also have to update the boot rom to match. Not a good
> thing, IMHO.
That's a very small price to pay for all the luxury of having a smarter
boot-monitor.
And, how many times was the linux calling sequence changed in the last
two years ?
cheers
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-24 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-24 16:33 boot/simple in ROM? Kent Borg
2003-04-24 17:13 ` Dan Malek
2003-04-24 17:32 ` Kent Borg
2003-04-24 17:49 ` Mark A. Greer
2003-04-24 18:41 ` Dan Malek
2003-04-24 18:29 ` emanuel stiebler [this message]
[not found] <00032EDD.C22236@borg.org>
2003-04-24 17:44 ` Jerry Van Baren
2003-04-24 18:02 ` Mark A. Greer
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-24 18:06 Kerl, John
2003-04-24 19:15 ` Kent Borg
2003-04-25 12:53 Wells, Charles
2003-04-25 14:48 ` Dan Malek
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