On 19/05/10 15:38 +0200, ext Carsten Munk wrote: > 2010/5/17 Esben Haabendal <[email protected]>: > > Sorry, but it is a bit disturbing how often Meego is mentioned as being > > an Intel architecture. When talking about bootloader, grub and syslinux > > clearly does not cover the whole architecture. Or is the N900/ARM > > already going to be phased out? > > On the other hand, they're also leaving the stage to the ARM people on > how it can be done/is done on their side - not overstepping eachothers > territory. Intel knows IA best, ARM guys knows ARM best. > > On ARM tradition seems to be a kernel in a NAND area or a kernel in a > FAT32 file system. On N900, kernel is flashed to NAND and loaded by > NOLO. Kernel then knows about btrfs as a root filesystem and boots it > happily. Btrfs in u-boot would probably be the obvious question, if it > exists?
On ARM the bootloader doesn't have such a uniform environment to execute in as on the IA. I think it would be fair to compare the ARM bootloaders to the BIOS + bootloader combo on IA. Very often product revision specific things are done in the bootloader. It's not entirely impossible to have something like u-boot be a standard MeeGo bootloader for ARM, but it's by no means a given that it would satisfy for example Nokia's requirements for actual product. MeeGo would be perhaps best to prepare for having a per-product bootloader binary in the repository. /lauri _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
