Barebox

[Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD]

Cc -dev

On 06:15 Mon 06 Sep     , Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 	I've like to open the discussion about barebox
> 
> 	What is Barebox?
> 
> 	Barebox is a fork of U-Boot which was named before the elce 2009
> 	U-Boot-V2 with the target to have a modern internal Implememtation
> 	derived from the Linux kernel and user friendly interface
> 
> 	The current design of barebox is very near from the kernel as example
> 	on AT91 I've update the current API to be as near as possible as the
> 	one in the kernel so it's now really easy to port a new board and on
> 	contrary of U-Boot we can have the multy instance of the drivers.
> 
> 	I'm start to push the SH with the same idea
> 
> 	As example have the prompt on all uart at the same time or be able to use
> 	them independently.
> 
> 	We also support FastBoot, Framebuffer, USB ohci & Ehci, network, nor,
> 	nandflash, dfu, usb ethernet (very usefull for soc without net
> 	device), Menu Framework, etc...
> 
> 	inprogress mmc, spi flash
> 
> 	DFU for Device Firmware Upgrade is very use full to update device from
> 	usb device from a PC so you will have an generic updater from the
> 	bootloader
> 
> 	The Menu Framework will help you to create friendly interface to manage
> 	the booloader via key specially on device without keyboard as cellphone,
> 	STB etc...
> 
> 	We have also a true shell support with scripting so it's very easy to
> 	create complex command via sheel script and also complex boot sequence
> 
> 	We have modules support as the kernel which allow to load code based
> 	on the need and speed up the boot but also allow to update the
> 	bootloader functionnality in the feature
> 
> 	etc...
> 
> Best Regards,
> J.
> 
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