Actually I had not thought of that, and I believe the firmware is expected to be loaded by something like uboot...
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Lennart Sorensen < lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 07:33:26PM +0100, Adam Hunston wrote: > > Hello fellow developers, > > > > Am looking to compile a version of grub to work on ARM based devices, > e.g. > > the tablet world, is anybody interested in joining me on this, or have > any > > ideas for starting..? I am thinking probably looking at the legacy > > bootloaders is probably a good start... > > > > Kind regards, Adam > > Does the arm device you have in mind have firmware seperate from the > boot loader? For most devices (The Loongson MIPS devices being one > of the few exceptions) grub expects the firmware to provide hardware > initialization and device enumeration. > > uboot and redboot on the other hand tend to handle all the hardware > initialization and device detection and are both the firmware and the > boot loader in one. > > grub on some of those Loongson devices is also the firmware though. > grub is mainly a boot loader only though. > > -- > Len Sorensen > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >
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