On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 03:56:29AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i just want to clarify the direction of barebox -- is it meant to > eventually supplant u-boot? i ask since i want to know if it's not > worth investing much more time in u-boot (v1) if things are eventually > going to switch over to barebox. When starting the activities, we had the intention to be a next generation technology project, being part of the u-boot project. However, things didn't seem to have progressed into that direction over the last two years, so we had to move on. We have a new name for the project now, which does already give the project a better exposure in the community. > specifically, i want to use it on my beagleboard, so i "git" checked > out the source for barebox, configured it for the beagle, built it > with the denx "arm-linux-" toolchain and it booted. i haven't got any > further than that so far but that's all i was after -- just getting it > to boot to the barebox prompt. > > at this point, if barebox is merely *adequate* to do what i want and > supports booting my beagleboard fully, is there any reason i don't > just move to it entirely, knowing it does what i need and it's only > going to get better? thanks. If it boots and has everything you need, why not? However, any contribution is welcome. rsc -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox
