LinuxBios PPC-support.. U-Boot project

[Frank]

As I said before, If you want to convert the u-boot users, you
have to provide an option to go to a command line instead of
just unconditionally booting linux. Getting to a command line is
not rocket science...

--- Gregg C Levine <hansolofalcon at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> Hello again from Gregg C Levine
> I agree in principle Ron, but I am curious as to why they
> thought
> that. After all, Linux BIOS does more for a system then
> U-Boot. It's
> my guess that after seeing the appropriate demonstrations that
> group
> will change their minds, collectively or otherwise. For that
> matter,
> Greg W, I applaud your efforts regarding the PPC port.
> -------------------
> Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon at worldnet.att.net
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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: linuxbios-admin at clustermatic.org [mailto:linuxbios-
> > admin at clustermatic.org] On Behalf Of ron minnich
> > Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 5:47 PM
> > To: David Eliasson
> > Cc: linuxbios at clustermatic.org
> > Subject: Re: LinuxBios PPC-support.. U-Boot project
> > 
> > On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, David Eliasson wrote:
> > 
> > > I read on the linuxbios webpage about PPC-support.. Aren t
> you
> guys
> > > aware of the U-boot project?
> > 
> > Sure.
> > 
> > > They've been running the GNU Linux kernel 2.4.19 and 2.4
> 21 in
> firmware
> > > for a while now.. Maybe I m just missing something, but I
> thought
> some
> > > merging of efforts might be in place..
> > 
> > I tried to have a conversation with somebody from u-boot
> about some
> sort
> > of merge, but it never got beyond the "why u-boot is better
> than
> > linuxbios" stage, so I dropped it.
> > 
> > ron
> > 
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