On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:37, Andy Pont wrote: > Juergen wrote... >> This patch series brings in some kind of x86 support into the tree. >> At first this support can act as a boot loader on a BIOS based >> x86 machine like GRUB is. E.g. barebox will be stored in the MBR of >> a boot media the BIOS supports to boot from. This implementation still >> talks to the BIOS in real mode, to load or store data from/to a disk >> drive, but the barebox core itself runs in flat mode. > > This seems like a re-inventing the wheel to me and as such strikes me as a > pointless exercise. There are plenty of bootloaders that will live in the > MBR that a BIOS can call - Grub, LILO, etc. and the whole CoreBOOT project > whose aim is to replace commercial BIOS products. > > I would have thought effort would be better focussed on other architectures. while i agree, if someone feels like wasting their own time on it, do you still tell them no ? -mike _______________________________________________ u-boot-v2 mailing list u-boot-v2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/u-boot-v2