Merging Qi with coreboot?
Andy Green
andy at openmoko.com
Wed Dec 3 17:08:48 CET 2008
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Somebody in the thread at some point said:
| I'd like to understand the motivation for Qi.. it really seems like it's
| just a "YABL" (yet another boot loader). Why can't U-boot be made to
There's some explanation of why we moved off U-Boot here
http://git.openmoko.org/?p=qi.git;a=blob;f=README;h=198507c717cc8b5f8f72250f2caa28ffef1ac537;hb=HEAD
| boot "really fast", or if speed is the primary motivation, wouldn't it
| make more sense to leverage the work begin done on Coreboot for x86?
| (cold boot to linux console in 3 seconds on x86 hardware)
x86 and s3c device boot are very different, and we don't need to take
care about a lot of PC-centric BIOS business.
- -Andy
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