From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Schweigstill Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:09:27 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] U-Boot 1.3.4 release In-Reply-To: <3efb10970808130206x1ff83217gc223fa292b3846d6@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080813085823.CAACE248AC@gemini.denx.de> <3efb10970808130206x1ff83217gc223fa292b3846d6@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <48A2DD07.1090609@schweigstill.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hello! Remy Bohmer schrieb: > Nice! and it is still called a bootloader? Yes. > It is getting a OS on itself ;-))) I don't think so. Such discussions and requests have been seen several times on the U-Boot mailing list. U-Boot has neither something like a scheduler nor other typical features, like "background processes", queues or general interrupt handlers. So it is quite far away from something which *nowadays* I would call on operating system. With best regards Andreas -- Dipl.-Phys. Andreas Schweigstill Schweigstill IT | Embedded Systems Schauenburgerstra?e 116, D-24118 Kiel, Germany Phone: (+49) 431 5606-435, Fax: (+49) 431 5606-436 Mobile: (+49) 171 6921973, Web: http://www.schweigstill.de/