On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Kevin D. Kissell wrote: > code into every MIPS/Linux kernel! I wouldn't dream of preventing > some one else from putting their full faith in the perfectly understood > and well-documented bootloaders on their Indy or DECstation. ;-) With functions like malloc(), strlen(), strcpy(), printf(), getenv(), etc. I wouldn't name the DECstation's firmware (the REX one) just a bootloader. It's more like a minimal libc with additional functionality to interface to hw, it's very well documented indeed (as opposed to most of DECstations' hw, sigh...) and it appears to present a kernel an interface that conforms to published docs. Of course, I don't expect anyone to put a libc into their embedded system's ROM. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
