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From: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
To: Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmeiner@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux as Bootloader
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:18:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E6D2588.3010009@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH9NwWfGA7jLWDZcN=DfGN5H2g=dt6U8SBxAX_wJAk6MKKfZAA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Christian,

On 09/05/2011 01:24 AM, Christian Gmeiner wrote:
> I am using the linux kernel in combination with busybox and a separate
> bootloader app to
> startup a x86 based embedded device.

Just FYI, Petitboot, a kexec base bootloader, does the same
thing as what you have done.

I'm now working on adding a twin GUI program and an x86 OpenWRT build.

Current info is here:

  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geoff/petitboot/
  http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/geoff/petitboot.git

Some old info is here:

  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geoff/cell/ps3-petitboot/
  http://ozlabs.org/~jk/projects/petitboot/

-Geoff

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-11 21:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-05  8:24 Linux as Bootloader Christian Gmeiner
2011-09-05 12:33 ` el es
2011-09-06 18:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-09-11 21:18 ` Geoff Levand [this message]
2011-09-16 11:02   ` Christian Gmeiner
2011-09-19  2:22     ` Geoff Levand
2011-10-21 23:07     ` Geoff Levand
2011-09-12  6:20 ` James Courtier-Dutton

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