Re: Dropping support for the smallest armel machines
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 02:08:19PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote:
>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.
Leif says it depends on the u-boot API being configured in for GRUB to
be able to use it. Worth checking if it's available on the smaller
systems...
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