On 02/08/11 11:46, Somebody in the thread at some point said:
HeyNicolas already pointed the recently created x-loader mailing-list and the common x-loader repository, but I was wondering whether we could just use jcrigby's u-boot SPL work on Panda and just avoid x-loader altogether
@John: do you think this would be possible/hard on panda?
@Andy: see http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@lists.denx.de/msg44916.html
Hi -
Actually FWIW I was talking to my friend Matt Hsu at 0xlabs yesterday, he did an Omap 3 port of Qi bootloader and told he is working on a Pandaboard / OMAP 4 port this week.
To the extent that the bootloader is just there to load and boot Linux the current system of xloader and U-Boot is wasteful in several domains at once but most especially boot time when combined with a big initrd like it is at the moment.
A chip as powerful as this should be in Linux off SD in 3 - 4 seconds from cold.
If I can't sell Qi ^^ then certainly extending xloader to just take Linux and eliminating U-Boot will be the next best thing.
-Andy