Yes, and the nice thing about the linuxbios architecture is that the CLI can just be a payload, so you can have any CLI that you want - forth, tcl, whatever. No changes are required to linuxbios at all.

Greg

At 6:03 PM -0700 24/6/03, Frank wrote:
As I said before, If you want to convert the u-boot users, you
have to provide an option to go to a command line instead of
just unconditionally booting linux. Getting to a command line is
not rocket science...

--- Gregg C Levine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 Hello again from Gregg C Levine
 I agree in principle Ron, but I am curious as to why they
 thought
 that. After all, Linux BIOS does more for a system then
 U-Boot. It's
 my guess that after seeing the appropriate demonstrations that
 group
 will change their minds, collectively or otherwise. For that
 matter,
 Greg W, I applaud your efforts regarding the PPC port.
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 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:linuxbios-
 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ron minnich
 > Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 5:47 PM
 > To: David Eliasson
 > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 > Subject: Re: LinuxBios PPC-support.. U-Boot project
 >
 > On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, David Eliasson wrote:
 >
 > > I read on the linuxbios webpage about PPC-support.. Aren t
 you
 guys
 > > aware of the U-boot project?
 >
 > Sure.
 >
 > > They've been running the GNU Linux kernel 2.4.19 and 2.4
 21 in
 firmware
 > > for a while now.. Maybe I m just missing something, but I
 thought
 some
 > > merging of efforts might be in place..
 >
 > I tried to have a conversation with somebody from u-boot
 about some
 sort
 > of merge, but it never got beyond the "why u-boot is better
 than
 > linuxbios" stage, so I dropped it.
 >
 > ron
 >
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