On Friday 17 August 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote: > as Michael pointed out, in the Blackfin world we tend to keep things > very dynamic as we have dev systems which allow for dropping in of > optional cards at will, so doing this in the bootloader is way too > inflexible.
That's the tradeoff: optimize for development boards, or instead for more fixed-function product boards. > oh, and another [smallish] data point. the Blackfin processor has a > small bootrom on it that could be likened to a very micro bios. so > it's possible to actually boot the linux kernel straight without a > boot loader. send the kernel over the UART to a Blackfin and watch it > go go go :) That's not uncommon, although I'm more used to seeing the on-chip ROMs relying on a second stage loader for stuff like getting memory and other clocks going at optimal speeds, and loading "big" images (that won't fit on-chip SRAM). - Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/