From: Tim R. <Ti...@Ri...> - 2002-08-20 03:04:12
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For those of you running native Linux machines, what are you using for a bootloader? I've found the link: http://LinuxSH.free.fr/faq/linux-romimage.diff But I was hoping for something that could handle flash updates etc like the blob project on ARM/StrongARM/XScale: http://www.lart.tudelft.nl/lartware/blob/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/blob/ Are there any open source boot loaders around? The device I'm building for will not have an ethernet connection and I don't fancy loading kernels over JTAG all the time. serial console with reflash ability would sure be nice. From what I can tell the "PFM-DS11 monitor" runs directly from flash so I can not update the flash region it is running from. I also do not know if it can be convinced to "mv" and "g" on startup. I'd like a timed boot of the kernel with default options, as well as the ability to interrupt the boot and upload new kernel/ramdisk/bootloader versions to flash and hopefully boot a kernel with command line arguments passed to the kernel. Any ideas? Oh, not sure where you folks hang out. I started a #LinuxSH on irc.openprojects.net (irc.freeport.info) and I'll be hanging out there while on this project (I go by BZFlag). Any admins for the SF project that would add TimRiker to the project would be appreciated. ;-) -- Tim Riker - http://rikers.org/ - Ti...@De... Lineo CTO - Ti...@Li... - http://www.Lineo.com/ BZFlag maintainer - http://BZFlag.org/ - for fun! |