Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: Eric Radman <theman@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-embedded@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-embedded] Bootloaders, and more bootloaders
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 23:46:36
Message-Id: 1068144386.2200.13.camel@inspiration
In Reply to: [gentoo-embedded] uClibc vs. Glibc by Eric Radman
1 Guys,
2
3 I did a little research on bootloaders, and found the selection to be
4 very platform specific. Here's what I dug up:
5
6 x86 : LILO, GRUB ROLO, Loadlin, Etherboot, LINUXBIOS, U-Boot, RedBoot
7 ARM : Compaq's bootldr, blob, U-Boot, RedBoot
8 PowerPC: U-Boot, RedBoot
9 MIPS : PMON, RedBoot
10 SuperH : sh-boot, RedBoot
11 m68k : RedBoot
12
13 Apparently, U-Boot has a very flexible design, but Redboot is the only
14 one that works accross all of these platforms. RedBoot is open source,
15 but it has hooks into eCos, a non-Linux embedded system. I gather that
16 RedBoot is used to start the Linux kernel, but I don't know how this is
17 done.
18
19 Here's the question: should we recommend/target specific bootloaders, or
20 should we mearly document what the options are?
21
22 E. Radman
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Re: [gentoo-embedded] Bootloaders, and more bootloaders AJ Armstrong <aja@×××××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-embedded] Bootloaders, and more bootloaders Patrik Lindergren <patrik@×××××××.nu>