On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 02:06:10PM +0100, Peter Naulls wrote: [...] > There might be a call for a monolithic ARM bootloader package which > contains all these things, knows how to access flash, etc, etc.
Also RedBoot does a lot of that and is actually part of the Debian 'ecos' package (RedBoot can be built out of the box from a vanilla eCos package). I am uncertain how (un)recent the Debian (woody) eCos package was synchronized with the fast moving eCos/RedBoot tree. Maybe for that reason, the idea of obtaining the bootloader from a Debian stable package might not be the best idea. Or conversely, should we invest effort in regular updates of these packages, in close sync with the upstream development? I read a discussion of hundreds of boards to be supported, but I see that u-boot, RedBoot, linuxppc-embedded, arm-linux, ... are able to support many boards and platforms in one monolythic tree (and some specific patches for certain ARM and XScale platforms). Peter -- Peter Vandenabeele Mind: Embedded Linux and eCos Development -- http://mind.be/
