"LinuxBIOS for ARM" or "Merging LinuxBIOS with BLOB"
ollie lho
ollie at sis.com.tw
Wed Sep 25 20:19:00 CEST 2002
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 01:44, Bari Ari wrote:
> Has anyone else here worked with BLOB?
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/blob
>
> Blob is a boot loader for SA11x0 (StrongARM) platforms and is just
> starting to support PXA and Xscale processors. Blob is able to boot a
> Linux kernel stored in flash or RAM and provide that kernel with a
> ramdisk (again from flash or RAM). The current BLOB binary is only about
> 7.2KB and the complete source tree is around 750KB.
>
I am also surveying bootloader for ARM architecture for some internal
development project. I have looked at many ARM bootloaders recently.
> BLOB is mostly written in C with some Assembly much like LinuxBIOS.
>
> We're considering merging all the work with Etherboot and LinuxBIOS with
> BLOB somehow to get LinuxBIOS and Etherboot working with ARM and Xscale
> processors. It would be nice to be able to share all of this between
> platforms.
>
Did you tried the ARMboot and PPCboot ?? These bootloaders have network
boot built-in now. I also think they have better source directory
structures.
Ollie
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