This is an interesting writeup (see link). I think they think coreboot does lots of BIOS stuff.
ron ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:08 AM Subject: Re: Merging Qi with coreboot? To: Troy Benjegerdes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | I'd like to understand the motivation for Qi.. it really seems like it's | just a "YABL" (yet another boot loader). Why can't U-boot be made to There's some explanation of why we moved off U-Boot here http://git.openmoko.org/?p=qi.git;a=blob;f=README;h=198507c717cc8b5f8f72250f2caa28ffef1ac537;hb=HEAD | boot "really fast", or if speed is the primary motivation, wouldn't it | make more sense to leverage the work begin done on Coreboot for x86? | (cold boot to linux console in 3 seconds on x86 hardware) x86 and s3c device boot are very different, and we don't need to take care about a lot of PC-centric BIOS business. - -Andy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkk2rwkACgkQOjLpvpq7dMqPBwCeN5amk8LJqXwCHj7MHC9l9LI0 2KwAnRinECoR1752QV0WI8/8bj8Q7YPM =b3Ze -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
