Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Apr 2002 09:26:39 +0200 (CEST) | From | Robert Schwebel <> | Subject | Re: moving some boot code out of arch directories |
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On 4 Apr 2002, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > A have some thoughts but nothing to concrete right now. On every > architecture booting seems to be a completely roll your own solution. > Which I find very annoying. This one of the reasons I am also working > on general linux booting linux support. If we could get as far as a > bootloader that works on multiple architectures perhaps we could start > to unify some of these things.
You might want to have a look at PPCboot / ARMboot (the latter one is a recent port to ARM) which seems to be very interesting! Only a port to x86 is missing (or, better, a unified project...)
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