LinuxBios PPC-support.. U-Boot project

[Greg Watson]

Yes, and the nice thing about the linuxbios architecture is that the 
CLI can just be a payload, so you can have any CLI that you want - 
forth, tcl, whatever. No changes are required to linuxbios at all.

Greg

At 6:03 PM -0700 24/6/03, Frank wrote:
>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.
>>  -------------------
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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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