DOCBoot update

[David Woodhouse]

On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 08:42 -0500, Dan Brown wrote:
> Balint Cristian wrote:
> 
> >Just a undocumented Question:
> >
> > Can please tell me if run on ARM/xscale not on intel only ?
> >If not, it is difficult to adapt ?, or you already have some plans for this.
> >  
> >
> DOCBoot only runs on intel hardware.  In fact it only runs on intel 
> hardware with a somewhat standard PC configuration, namely a standard 
> BIOS which supplies certain functionality.  Also, the Linux bootloading 
> process is very specific to i386.  I would guess that a variant of 
> DOCBoot for ARM/xscale would probably be a complete rewrite.  Sorry :(

You'd probably do better to add DiskOnChip support to RedBoot.

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dwmw2