On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 01:19:49PM -0500, Paul Jimenez wrote: > -1 for writing our own bootloader > > If U-boot is bloated and big, we should certainly look into why that's > so and slim it down, but IMO we should avoid reinventing the wheel and > stick with what works. > > If we want to do the boot-straight-to-kernel thing, that's fine too. > > The main thing in either case is that we get to leverage other work > being done that might be helpful (like drivers, etc) and don't have to > spend resources keeping up-to-date.
Really, the bigger the codebase more possible bugs we have, more time we spend to maintain it, more people should be involved in testing and validating the code. We already have a huge kernel. And booting is just about taking the cpu out of reset state. Maybe allowing some sort of flashing method as well, but this is other stuff. -- Best Regards, Felipe Balbi [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blog.felipebalbi.com
