LinuxBios PPC-support.. U-Boot project

ron minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Tue Jun 24 22:05:01 CEST 2003


On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Frank wrote:

> Interesting, I didn't know that. So I can write my own cli and
> jump to it from LinuxBios instead of booting Linux?

absolutely. In essence, that's what etherboot does. See the bare metal 
toolkit for other interesting applications.

This is why the name 'linuxbios' gives us trouble. We've been trying to 
figure out if a name change would cause us more trouble, and so far the 
answer has been 'yes it will cause more trouble'.

ron




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