From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753395Ab1JUXH1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:07:27 -0400 Received: from tx2ehsobe003.messaging.microsoft.com ([65.55.88.13]:11598 "EHLO TX2EHSOBE005.bigfish.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750958Ab1JUXH0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:07:26 -0400 X-SpamScore: -20 X-BigFish: VS-20(zzbb2dK9371K1b0bM1432N98dKzz1202hzz8275dhz2dh87h668h839h93fh61h) X-Spam-TCS-SCL: 0:0 X-Forefront-Antispam-Report: CIP:160.33.98.74;KIP:(null);UIP:(null);IPVD:NLI;H:mail7.fw-bc.sony.com;RD:mail7.fw-bc.sony.com;EFVD:NLI X-FB-DOMAIN-IP-MATCH: fail Message-ID: <4EA1FB19.30001@infradead.org> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:07:05 -0700 From: Geoff Levand User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.23) Gecko/20110921 Thunderbird/3.1.15 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christian Gmeiner CC: Subject: Re: Linux as Bootloader References: <4E6D2588.3010009@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Christian, On 09/16/2011 04:02 AM, Christian Gmeiner wrote: > 2011/9/11 Geoff Levand : >> 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. > > Petitboot sounds nice, but kernel.org is down. Is there an other way to get > access to it via git? Just FYI, my petitboot repo at kernel.org is back: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/geoff/petitboot.git Also, I put a preliminary version of new Web pages I'm working on here: http://bombadil.infradead.org/~geoff/petitboot/ -Geoff