Subject: Re: TODO list
To: None <waa@cs.umd.edu>
From: Robert Swindells <rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 07/25/2000 00:13:26
>> 
>> One of the things that might be on the list is a replacement of the RiscOS
>> bootloader. Not that it is that bad, not at all, but more that its then
>> possible to have a uniform bootloader across all NetBSD/arm32. My idea was
>> f.e. to look if its posible to use the NetBSD/arm26 bootloader and modify
>> it so it will load NetBSD/arm32 on the RiscPC too. The idea behind this is
>> that it is then not nessisary to have Risc/RC7500 to migle and set up a
>> lot of TLB's etc when the kernel is allready running.
>> 

>I'm considering developing a bootloader for the ebsa-285. As a first stab,
>I started to look at blob which is a linux bootloader for SA-1100's.  I
>don't think it would serve as a generic loader, but it has some nice
>features (http://www.lart.tudelft.nl/lartware/blob/), and it should be
>very difficult to change it to load a netbsd kernel.

There is also the Compaq bootloader at http://www.handhelds.org

It already contains NetBSD support.

Robert