Am 06.04.2013 um 01:00 schrieb Scott Wood <scottw...@freescale.com>:
> On 04/04/2013 06:59:24 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: >> On 04.04.2013, at 13:53, Andreas Färber wrote: >> > For PReP, Fabien has not stated what his use case actually is (in >> > particular which hardware?), so it's hard for me to comment on what the >> > hardware actually does and I thus won't accept random changes just >> > because they happen to be in Leon3 code. There's nothing conceptually >> > wrong with loading ELF code so I'm positive we will find a solution to >> > accommodate all use cases in some way. :) >> I think it makes a lot of sense to support loading -kernel as an ELF binary. >> I don't think it's a good idea to allow -kernel without any BIOS. We do that >> on the e500 machines and so far it's mostly hurt us. > > If by "mostly hurt us" you mean allowed things to work without having to do a > bunch of hacking to create a paravirt U-Boot and/or implement a bunch of > emulation that we don't really need otherwise. I mean that we lack compatibility. The less we diverge from what users are used to, the better usability becomes for users. Just try to run *BSD on e500. Good luck ;) Alex > > -Scott
