[U-Boot-Users] RFC: Booting the Linux/ppc64 kernel without Open Firmware HOWTO

Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-05-19T23:42:10Z

On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 01:20 +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <1116541993.5153.22.camel@gaston> you wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, small *is* beautiful.
> >
> > Did you read the "optional" above ? Let me repeat _AGAIN_ here: the
> > bootloader doesn't _need_ ANY code to deal with the device-tree if you
> > decide to just build the blob once for all, and embed it "as is".
>
> And the blob has a zero memory footprint or what?

Don't be ridiculous please. But definitely a small one.

> > Face it, there will NOT be any other way that will be accepted upstream
> > to boot a ppc64 kernel.
>
> Then let's just stop here. We're just wasting time if there is
> nothing to discuss any more.

You are welcome to discuss aspects of the content of the proposal.

Ben.