From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oliver Korpilla Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 11:46:14 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] [Newbie help] Motorola Board with GT64260 In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20040502213935.0129c038@pop3.ttlc.net> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20040502213935.0129c038@pop3.ttlc.net> Message-ID: <409614E6.6050602@fh-landshut.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Mike McCullough wrote: >> >> BTW: MCC Systems sells a "Linux SDK" which includes a port of U-Boot >> to the MVME5500 board (see http://www.mccengineering.com/linuxsdks.htm) > > > Actually, MCC does NOT have a port of U-boot to the Motorola 5500 board > as we used the onboard MOTload software instead. Since MOTLoad worked > just fine for us (once we figured it out) we didn't do the U-Boot port. > MotLoad actually netboots fine, but AFAIK it doesn't boot from flash (a capability I already have gladly exploited with the MVME2100 and the PPCbug). While it seems that a lot of setups often seem to be perfectly ok with a netboot (which seems to be very popular with VxWorks as well), for my setup a flash boot setup would really be the better choice - especially since on the MVME5500 flash is an abundant resource: 32-40MB are more than enough for a really nice root filesystem, don't you think? (I've not even ran out of the 4MB on the MVME2100 by now - thanks, uClibc and BusyBox!!!) >> Maybe we should start a "black list" of companies who don't give >> their patches back to the public source tree. > > Well, everything that we list on our Web site is freely available. You > just have to do the same amount of hunting (and integration!) that MCC did. > > I'm not fond of black-listing myself. Isn't that what big companies do?? > Well, as long as the Linux vendors either hide their Linux kernels, or release only trimmed down versions of them (and no patchset), I guess the bootloader is not the worst problem - ok, ok, of course to people on this list this is actually an issue at heart!! But with all the closed mailing lists, and proprietary patchsets for customers only, open-source projects seem to be pretty much to be on the exploited side of the deal to me. :( This is of course a general comment, and not about your special SDK vendor, which I have no experience with yet! Thanks, and with kind regards, Oliver Korpilla