LinuxBios PPC-support.. U-Boot project

[Eric W. Biederman]

Frank <frannk_m1 at yahoo.com> writes:

> u-boot's weakness is that it primarily supports arm and ppc
> processors. There is only one x86 board in the source tree and
> it won't even compile! If u-boot had more support for x86
> platforms, it would give linuxbios a serious run for it's money.

There is also the fact that all of the platforms U-Boot runs
on appear to be very simple ones.  No complicated
SPD base memory initialization, etc.

LinuxBIOS supports much more complicated hardware.

That is the other reason for the design skew.  If you can write
proper memory initialization code in a day.  You can put it in
your bootloader.  If it takes a week or two, separating board
initialization and your bootloader makes a lot more sense.

Eric