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Guys, |
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I did a little research on bootloaders, and found the selection to be |
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very platform specific. Here's what I dug up: |
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x86 : LILO, GRUB ROLO, Loadlin, Etherboot, LINUXBIOS, U-Boot, RedBoot |
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ARM : Compaq's bootldr, blob, U-Boot, RedBoot |
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PowerPC: U-Boot, RedBoot |
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MIPS : PMON, RedBoot |
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SuperH : sh-boot, RedBoot |
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m68k : RedBoot |
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Apparently, U-Boot has a very flexible design, but Redboot is the only |
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one that works accross all of these platforms. RedBoot is open source, |
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but it has hooks into eCos, a non-Linux embedded system. I gather that |
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RedBoot is used to start the Linux kernel, but I don't know how this is |
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done. |
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Here's the question: should we recommend/target specific bootloaders, or |
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should we mearly document what the options are? |
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E. Radman |
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