Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763768AbXHQUVv (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:21:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753486AbXHQUVn (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:21:43 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.187]:42411 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752247AbXHQUVm (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:21:42 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=sNXPOnrQN7VYam8hN8ieDUVX+Eqy98eellfwwzbEilW/G2eYnD8wTljgQhyG5mhLr6NCgHV7zsowb4cS8hjsBJRERtWBRLskVLjFXP9dq8wqDgfT4v7mAZ9Ll7bbcipvl+C/gDaw5AHQHEX4lwFiebo7KcnFJH0uMNRvUPNn0ik= Message-ID: <8bd0f97a0708171321g3460312fwf2b6cb998845ea85@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:21:40 -0400 From: "Mike Frysinger" To: "David Brownell" Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/12] Blackfin arch: Add label to call new GPIO API Cc: "Bryan Wu" , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Michael Hennerich" In-Reply-To: <8bd0f97a0708171319q71b5a117v8882f4fb70d2dc43@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <11865441373719-git-send-email-bryan.wu@analog.com> <200708171124.54839.david-b@pacbell.net> <8bd0f97a0708171245j74e856e0uce009de16c00f517@mail.gmail.com> <200708171309.25529.david-b@pacbell.net> <8bd0f97a0708171319q71b5a117v8882f4fb70d2dc43@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 818 Lines: 17 On 8/17/07, Mike Frysinger wrote: > as Michael pointed out, in the Blackfin world we tend to keep things > very dynamic as we have dev systems which allow for dropping in of > optional cards at will, so doing this in the bootloader is way too > inflexible. oh, and another [smallish] data point. the Blackfin processor has a small bootrom on it that could be likened to a very micro bios. so it's possible to actually boot the linux kernel straight without a boot loader. send the kernel over the UART to a Blackfin and watch it go go go :) -mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/