Re: moving some boot code out of arch directories

[Robert Schwebel]

On 4 Apr 2002, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> A have some thoughts but nothing to concrete right now.  On every
> architecture booting seems to be a completely roll your own solution.
> Which I find very annoying.  This one of the reasons I am also working
> on general linux booting linux support.  If we could get as far as a
> bootloader that works on multiple architectures perhaps we could start
> to unify some of these things.

You might want to have a look at PPCboot / ARMboot (the latter one is a
recent port to ARM) which seems to be very interesting! Only a port to x86
is missing (or, better, a unified project...)

Robert
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