Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753147Ab0L3Ipq (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Dec 2010 03:45:46 -0500 Received: from mail-fx0-f46.google.com ([209.85.161.46]:57458 "EHLO mail-fx0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752726Ab0L3Ipp convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Dec 2010 03:45:45 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [24.27.19.110] In-Reply-To: <20101230082654.GB11721@angua.secretlab.ca> References: <1290706801-7323-1-git-send-email-bigeasy@linutronix.de> <1290706801-7323-3-git-send-email-bigeasy@linutronix.de> <1290807736.32570.143.camel@pasglop> <20101128134907.GA30784@www.tglx.de> <20101230082654.GB11721@angua.secretlab.ca> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 02:45:44 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/11] x86: Add device tree support From: Rob Landley To: Grant Likely Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sodaville@linutronix.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 921 Lines: 22 On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 2:26 AM, Grant Likely wrote: > What is the boot sequence for the embedded x86 platforms? ?Is there > still a bootloader? There's no one embedded setup on any platform, but one of the few constants of embedded development is trying to eliminate unnecessary requirements. Just on standard-ish PC hardware I've seen people try to stick Linux in the BIOS flash (generally not enough room), I've seen people try to stick it as the first stage PXE payload, there's the fun and games with kexec of emergency kernels for crash dumps... If the capability to skip an unnecessary bootloader was available, people would use it. Rob -- 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/