> > Nope. I do have a comment though KISS. For complicated super > > featured things we can build the all doing all powerful bootloader on > > top of the linux kerenl. Able to read an write all filesystems, and > > many other things. > > RedBoot can do a fair amount of this already - and is in use on a number of > embedded platforms as a boot loader. Getting the LinuxBIOS board setup code > to start RedBoot, then using RedBoot to boot Linux would be nice. > > Being a derivative of eCos, you can already configure RedBoot fairly well > to include the bare minimum of required functionality, and it's fairly > bloat-free. It should be a fairly viable option for fitting in 256KiB flash > chips. >
Hey David. What's your association with RedHat now out of curioisty? Anyway, exploring RedBoot is something I've already done. If you go back in the archives you can find the config scripts used and a binary. It worked well and did most of it's job well. But they were falling behind on their elf support. They are working on an elf library loader capability and I had assigned one of our students to get it working for elf loading but it just wasn't coming along fast enough (2 months and relativly nowhere..) so I abandoned it for temporal reasons.
