+++ Rob Landley [2009-12-20 20:45 -0600]: > On Thursday 17 December 2009 02:31:36 Matt Hsu wrote: > > I still live in hope that somebody will split the first part (coreboot) out > from the second part (grub) in embedded bootloaders.
blob took this approach a long time ago (started 2000-ish) trying very hard not to do any more than was needed in the normal version, and having a uploadable extra part for interactive stuff but was only adopted on a fairly small number of platforms. Popular bootloaders always grow more bits and more hardware support until they are no longer small. It's a very difficult trend to resist, although good architecture helps. The codebase is still there: http://sourceforge.net/projects/blob/ I always thought it was good code (especially since I've had far too much to do with bootldr (from familiar) for the last few years (yuk!)). Wookey -- Principal hats: iEndian - Balloonboard - Toby Churchill - Emdebian http://wookware.org/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
