Lennart: On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Lennart Sorensen <lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > > Well a standard firmware that initialized hardware and then calls a > dedicated bootloader like grub that resides on sata is certainly very > convinient and I wish arm boards would start doing something like that. > I am not sure they will ever get taken seriously in the server market > if they don't. openfirmware seems to do that nicely on powerpc and > sparc systems (and I believe some mips systems too). No reason arm > couldn't do that too (and of course switch to devicetree for passing > info about the system to the kernel at the same time).
Thing is, by the time you make a bootloader that intelligent, you are well on your way to reinventing the things Linux+initramfs can already do better---and that's even before you consider the device driver implications. That's why I tend to go that route, rather than making a super-bootloader. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CADkCAuuX36FQwAYfW6-vBFWC=FR=x2hiskqp7kyxhnhem8n...@mail.gmail.com
