[OLPC-devel] Re: Teleconference information for software status meeting tonight. (note change in time).

[Mitch Bradley]

I apologize if the tone of that message came out wrong.  I meant it in 
the vein of "it would be better if...".

I have a specific need already.  I would like to be able to boot Forth 
diagnostics from a USB key. That's the underpinnings of my hardware 
bringup strategy over the next few months.

I can already load them into boot FLASH as an alternative LinuxBIOS 
payload.  That works for my personal use, but it's highly inconvenient 
for anyone else to use them in that form.

I could do it easily from InsydeBIOS, by using syslinux or Grub or 
various other conventional-BIOS bootloaders, but the current kbl-exec 
loader is a different story.

Jordan Crouse wrote:
> On 22/08/06 21:32 -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote:
>   
>> Personally, I think this is a Bad Thing.  Why should it only be possible 
>> to boot something
>> that is in a complicated format that is only used by the Linux kernel?
>>     
>
> Lets be fair - we're designing something here that has one (or few uses).
> We have massive size restrictions, and we made the decisions that best fit
> our situtation.  If we have a need to boot an ELF, then we'll do that, but
> you can't fault us for being reactive instead of proactive.
>
> Jordan
>
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