No, I beg to differ. I have ported u-boot to more then one ppc based platform. Thye do have SPD support. I ported over to the ppc750fx (with a Marvel 64360 system controller) and the 440gp based platforms --- "Eric W. Biederman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > u-boot's weakness is that it primarily supports arm and ppc > > processors. There is only one x86 board in the source tree > and > > it won't even compile! If u-boot had more support for x86 > > platforms, it would give linuxbios a serious run for it's > money. > > There is also the fact that all of the platforms U-Boot runs > on appear to be very simple ones. No complicated > SPD base memory initialization, etc. > > LinuxBIOS supports much more complicated hardware. > > That is the other reason for the design skew. If you can > write > proper memory initialization code in a day. You can put it in > your bootloader. If it takes a week or two, separating board > initialization and your bootloader makes a lot more sense. > > Eric >
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