[Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: LinuxBIOS for ARM; or Merging LinuxBIOS with BLOB]]

[Bari Ari]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: "LinuxBIOS for ARM" or "Merging LinuxBIOS with 
BLOB"]
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 03:04:41 -0400
From: Thomas Chen <tchen at on-go.com>
To: Bari Ari <bari at onelabs.com>
CC: lart <lart at lart.tudelft.nl>
References: <3D92A629.3010606 at onelabs.com>



that is not true.... i have armboot booting uclinux on
atmel eb40, oki  and a customed dev board....  quite nice...
i looked at blob myself and thought armboot was much easier to work with

Bari Ari wrote:

>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: "LinuxBIOS for ARM" or "Merging LinuxBIOS with BLOB"
> Date: 26 Sep 2002 14:01:56 +0800
> From: ollie lho 
> To: Nicholas Mistry 
> CC: linuxbios at clustermatic.org
> References: <3D920BDB.6080508 at onelabs.com> 
> <1826.63.214.79.152.1033017219.squirrel at 65.85.27.130>
>
>
>
> On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 13:13, Nicholas Mistry wrote:
>
>> Just for the record, i have worked extensively with blob.  Especially
>> during the StrongARM port of linux.
>>
>> The IPAQ 36xx, 37xx, 38xx handhelds are based off the Intel
>> Assabet/Neponset Development platform.  The assabet is a StrongARM 1110
>> chip, and the neponset a 1111 chip.
>>
>> I currently own one of these, and i have to say its a nice setup.  
>> After i
>> got my IPAQ 3870, i put the Assabet/Neponset hardware asside.
>>
>> BLOB is a great little bootloader.  It has definitely come a long way in
>> the past year.  The one thing that i disliked about it was the mechanics
>> for updating flash.  But i am sure they have worked that out by now.
>>
>
> Do you know if Blob can load uClinux ?? I found that most of the ARM 
> bootloaders only support ARM-Linux. (Am I wrong ??)
>
> Ollie
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