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.
