In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > > ==> U-Boot > > That's not an overly helpful answer. As Wookey as pointed out, there > are many bootloaders, and u-boot certainly doesn't work on more than a > large subset of ARM and other embedded platforms. u-boot doesn't know
There are not many boot loaders that support such a wide range of different architectures (PowerPC, ARM, MIPS, ColdFire, NIOS, ...). At the moment U-Boot comes with default configurations for about 200 different board, including 29 ARM boards (not counting boards which come in different configurations). > how to access disks (last time I looked) for example, which is where > some systems keep their kernels. U-Boot supports IDE/ATA disks, CompactFlash cards, Memory Sticks, PCMCIA cards, USB Memory Sticks, etc. - you name it. > Furthermore, AFAICT, u-boot isn't packaged for Debian, so I'm not sure > of what you're trying to claim here. Here you are correct. U-Boot is not packaged for Debian. You wrote: "There might be a call for a monolithic ARM boolloader". I just wanted to point out that U-Boot has been successfully in use for exactly this purpose for a long, long time. Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
