Re: LinuxBIOS for ARM or Merging LinuxBIOS with BLOB
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 14:30, Bari Ari wrote: ollie lho wrote: Do you know if Blob can load uClinux ?? I found that most of the ARM bootloaders only support ARM-Linux. (Am I wrong ??) Blob is written to be OS independent, but I don't believe anyone has had it working with uClinux yet. Lineo has had it working on thier version of linux along with network boot. Bari, Do you know if there is any OSS bootloader for uClinux on ARM ?? Ollie ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: LinuxBIOS for ARM; or Merging LinuxBIOS with BLOB
On 26 Sep 2002, ollie lho wrote: On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 15:22, Bari Ari wrote: Original Message Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: LinuxBIOS for ARM or Merging LinuxBIOS with BLOB] Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 03:04:41 -0400 From: Thomas Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bari Ari [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: lart [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] that is not true i have armboot booting uclinux on atmel eb40, oki and a customed dev board quite nice... i looked at blob myself and thought armboot was much easier to work with Do you have any patch avaliable ?? The code on CVS only have support for 720T and 920T. I am porting it to Integrator MB and CM940T. Ollie I think it's most of the same under bootloader,most of bootlaoder didn't enable MMU in booting. CK. ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: LinuxBIOS for ARM or Merging LinuxBIOS with BLOB
I like the idea of pulling the blob code into linuxbios, then we get a standard. Is there a recommended xscale development card? ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: LinuxBIOS for ARM or Merging LinuxBIOS with BLOB
Ronald G Minnich wrote: I like the idea of pulling the blob code into linuxbios, then we get a standard. Is there a recommended xscale development card? The LART project http://www.lart.tudelft.nl/ is an open hardware platform based on the old SA1100. I believe they are working on a new SA-1110 and PXA-250 design. Aleph One http://www.aleph1.co.uk/armlinux/LART/index.html may still have some LART's in stock. For PXA Intel has a dev board http://developer.intel.com/design/pca/applicationsprocessors/tools_software/dbpxa250.htm For Xscale Intel has the IXCDP1100 dev board http://developer.intel.com/design/network/products/cpp/ixcdp1100.htm For the IXP1200 they have the IXDP1200 platform http://developer.intel.com/design/network/products/npfamily/ixdp1200.htm For the IXP2400 and IXP2800 http://developer.intel.com/design/network/products/npfamily/ixdp2x00.htm For the IOP321 http://www.intel.com/design/iio/docs/iop321.htm the PXA-250 is very popular for handheld and PDA designs, they have just added MMX instructions to the PXA so it will be a hot platform for handheld gaming, Mpeg-4, MP3 devices. The IXP processors are used for networking applications and the IOP for storage applications. The new iPAQ 3900 also makes for a budget 400MHz PXA250 dev platform. http://www.handhelds.org has quite a bit of software and How-To's on firmware conversions and updates for handhelds. Bari ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: LinuxBIOS for ARM or Merging LinuxBIOS with BLOB
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 01:44, Bari Ari wrote: Has anyone else here worked with BLOB? http://sourceforge.net/projects/blob Blob is a boot loader for SA11x0 (StrongARM) platforms and is just starting to support PXA and Xscale processors. Blob is able to boot a Linux kernel stored in flash or RAM and provide that kernel with a ramdisk (again from flash or RAM). The current BLOB binary is only about 7.2KB and the complete source tree is around 750KB. I am also surveying bootloader for ARM architecture for some internal development project. I have looked at many ARM bootloaders recently. BLOB is mostly written in C with some Assembly much like LinuxBIOS. We're considering merging all the work with Etherboot and LinuxBIOS with BLOB somehow to get LinuxBIOS and Etherboot working with ARM and Xscale processors. It would be nice to be able to share all of this between platforms. Did you tried the ARMboot and PPCboot ?? These bootloaders have network boot built-in now. I also think they have better source directory structures. Ollie ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: LinuxBIOS for ARM or Merging LinuxBIOS with BLOB
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 08:51, Bari Ari wrote: ollie lho wrote: Did you tried the ARMboot and PPCboot ?? These bootloaders have network boot built-in now. I also think they have better source directory structures. ARMboot http://sourceforge.net/projects/armboot and http://armboot.sourceforge.net/ may be a better fit since the structure is similar to the PPCboot http://ppcboot.sourceforge.net/ project. This would help to standardize LinuxBIOS for three different platforms. All you'd need next is a MIPSboot and SHboot project and everything would be just about covered :-) We should start a project call OmniBoot (not OmniBook^TM) which can boot any architecture. Ollie ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
