Re: Dropping support for the smallest armel machines
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Has anybody investigated using something like OpenFirmware as an
> intermediate boot loader? If that were in internal Flash then it
> should be possible to load the kernel from external storage-
Yeah; I didn't have time to try it out, but there's also a WIP GRUB port
for U-Boot done by Leif Lindholm which might be suitable for U-Boot
platforms (N2100 is RedBoot based though). That is, you load GRUB
as an n-stage bootloader instead of loading a kernel.
> or in
> principle over TFTP etc.
The RedBoot build on N2100 has TFTP and even (basic) HTTP support!
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Loïc Minier
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