Re: u-boot

To: david.vantyghem@laposte.net
Cc: PowerPC List Debian <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: u-boot
From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:32:49 +0200
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On Wed, 2025-07-09 at 13:08 +0200, David VANTYGHEM wrote:
> Is https://u-boot.org/about/ an interesting alternative to GRUB?

I don't think so as u-boot is harder to use and also requires explicit
support for every hardware in question. And since u-boot doesn't support
Open Firmware/ieee1275, you won't be able to use it on standard PowerMac
hardware.

Adrian

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