Re: Bootldr problems fixed

Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <[email protected]> Fri, 06 Aug 2004 11:37:36 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.simpad.linux
Organization Institute of Computer Science, University of Frankfurt
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

> > BTW., is it planned to submit the SIMpad changes upstream?
> 
> Don't know. Who is the maintainer

IIRC Jamey Hicks. The patches should probably be sent to
[email protected]

> > Then again, it might not be worth it since bootldr is pretty much end of
> > line. Nowadays most development seems to go into LAB.
> 
> What is LAB?

Linux As Bootloader, the next generation bootloader from handhelds.org.
The basic idea is to use the linux kernel itself as a bootloader by
prepending the necessary init sequences. That way, drivers no longer
have to be developed twice.

-- 
Regards,

Mickey.
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