On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Nikita V. Youshchenko <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yoush@debian.org">yoush@debian.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">> What<br>
> you _can_ do is construct a mini Linux environment that provides a boot<br>
> menu / usb-dfu, and is booted by Qi in the normal way. This would place<br>
> those tools in regular Linux userspace, i.e. much more accessible to<br>
> regular non kernel / bootloader hackers. This could be the default or<br>
> secondary boot option - provide a boot menu and then chainload the<br>
> desired final Linux environment.<br>
<br>
</div>Have anybody done this, at least in proof-of-concept form?<br>
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If yes, any links?<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Search kexecboot<br><br><a href="http://git.linuxtogo.org/?p=groups/kexecboot/kexecboot.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/cfgfiles">http://git.linuxtogo.org/?p=groups/kexecboot/kexecboot.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/cfgfiles</a> <br>
<br>I'm using it on my old Sharp Zaurus and it works great, still actively developed (would be nice to have some hacker testing, improving support for freerunner).<br><br>I liked u-boot menu and this is even better as kernel for this and then whole system can be quite the same.<br>
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