Re: moving some boot code out of arch directories

Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com)
05 Apr 2002 00:59:04 -0700


Robert Schwebel <robert@schwebel.de> writes:

> On 4 Apr 2002, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > A have some thoughts but nothing to concrete right now. On every
> > architecture booting seems to be a completely roll your own solution.
> > Which I find very annoying. This one of the reasons I am also working
> > on general linux booting linux support. If we could get as far as a
> > bootloader that works on multiple architectures perhaps we could start
> > to unify some of these things.
>
> You might want to have a look at PPCboot / ARMboot (the latter one is a
> recent port to ARM) which seems to be very interesting! Only a port to x86
> is missing (or, better, a unified project...)

Do you have any pointers?

Eric
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