I think the bike shed should be orange. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Chris Zimman > Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 10:54 AM > To: Jonathan Larmour > Cc: eCos discuss list > Subject: RE: [ECOS] RedBoot banner > > > RedBoot already had a startup banner. U-boot has never had one I > > believe. > > It depends on what you call a startup banner. I personally > don't mind name of prog and copyright, but anything beyond > that non-technical is just unwanted cruft as far as I go. > > > Maybe it might have been different if RedBoot hadn't had > such a banner > > at > the point it was GPL'd. > > It has a fairly minimal banner as it stands right now. > > Something like: > > " > RedBoot(tm) bootstrap and debug environment [ROMRAM] > Copyright (C) 2000-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > Platform: PLATFORM NAME (ARM9) > RAM: 0x00000000-0x00800000, [0x0002fcc8-0x007dd000] available > FLASH: 0x04000000-0x041fffff, 4 x 0x8000 blocks, 126 x 0x20000 blocks > > RedBoot> > " > > ...would be lovely as far as I'm concerned. I would vote for > doing away with the 'certified'/'non-certified' thing as > well, since it's meaningless in practice to most people. > > > I don't think it's a bad thing for users to be aware of RedBoot's > > licence anyway. If anyone was worried about read-only data > (not RAM) > > footprint, there are probably many other areas of memory footprint > > that deserve attention, and you probably wouldn't want to use > > something as all-encompassing as RedBoot in any case ;). > > OK but just to be clear, as far as I can tell right now, you > guys are just adding this because you feel like it versus > their being an actual requirement for having done so. > > Certainly for myself, the consideration is not the memory > footprint, it's the fact that something redundant is being > added to the startup. Anyone who wants to see the details of > the license can very easily go look at the GPL. I don't > necessarily need to be reminded of it every time the platform starts. > > --Chris > > -- > Before posting, please read the FAQ: > http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos > and search the list archive: > http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss > >
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