[OLPC-devel] Re: belt and suspenders...

[Ronald G Minnich]

Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> * Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org> [060711 21:45]:
> 
>>Yeah, that was my guess.  And building a USB stack is *lots* of work.
> 
> 
> FILO is a small bootloader with a builtin usb stack and a grub(1) like
> scripting engine.
> 
> http://linuxbios.org/index.php/FILO
> 
> But I guess it won't fit into flash with a kernel in the "other" image.

It would still need an mtd driver, which it does not have. And, I still 
don't trust these small usb stacks -- I've had too much trouble with all 
the permutations of usb devices.

ron