Salve! According to Harld Welte, " Oh, and yes, the bootloader is u-boot (as the frequent reader of this blog might have guessed). So that is GPL licensed, too." http://gnumonks.org/~laforge/weblog/2006/11/08/ the bootloader of the Neo1973 will be u-boot.
From http://u-boot.sf.net is just one documentation link to "The DENX U-Boot and Linux Guide (DULG) for TQM8xxL" http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/Manual and FAQ http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/Faq But also the mailinglist could be good for geting to know how it works and u-boot is used. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=12898 Ok, I haven'd read this pages yet, so I doesn't know anything about u-boot. In gereral would IMHO nice to have: - that during boot I could choose between different installations (one fall back with core functions) - boot from usb stick - boot suspended RAM from flash Not for arm9 for a strong-arm exist this patch: http://www.rpsys.net/openzaurus/patches/kexec-arm-r1.patch Maybe an option could be to use the kexec patch wich allows a boot chain: u-boot would boot a small GNU/linux with kexec path, allows: - emergency phone calls - USB stick access - maybe booting from USB stick - GSM data calls / GPRS - GUI - backup/recover of the mobile - choose between diferent installations - mounting encrypted filesystem - read suspended RAM from flash memory - checking the hash for new data before/during or after coping it and then boot another kernel. Flashing devices with the need to run a tftp server is not so enduser friendly as just the chance to copy a new image to an USB-Stick and to flash the device from this stick. Writing data to a USB-Stick could you do with your Neo1973, in internet cafes or university... Yes internet cafes. When the neo has some public keys on it, the new images could be signed so an unsecure internet wouldn't matter... How to support testing new Neo enviroment from usb, without the fear that this testing could compromise your system? When it use the same kernel and your system on the Neo1973 support linux-vserver, it could be started as guest system from USB. Again, feedback welcome to make things more clear - what's neccessary to know about the boot process - what will be possible - what would be possible So that we have some stuff, some links and ideas to fill our wiki when it is there... ;) Greetings, rob _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community
