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From: emanuel stiebler <emu@e-bbes.com>
To: Paul Ruizendaal <pnr@planet.nl>, "tuhs@tuhs.org" <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Unix install & "standalone" package
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2023 10:53:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7300cbcd-c88a-781e-2cf2-8010298570a6@e-bbes.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CF5B43BE-A199-4581-A4E5-A0DF076E408A@planet.nl>

On 2023-09-04 05:57, Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS wrote:
> 
> Recently, I was looking into the “Das U-Boot” boot loader package. Summarised with great simplification, u-boot bundles device drivers, file systems, commands and a Bourne-like shell into a standalone package. Normally it auto-runs a script that brings up a system, but when used in interactive mode it allows a great deal of poking around.

U-Boot has his roots in embedded systems, where you have a nice 
environment to debug your system. You have already everything there to 
download files with s-record from serial, boot from tftp, etc.

Actually also setting up the memory controllers, timing, setting 
environment variables ...

This became so comfortable, that sometimes the U-Boot code is larger 
than the target system. So, after development is done, the system jumps 
into the real application or code ...



  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-04 14:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-04  9:57 [TUHS] " Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2023-09-04 14:53 ` emanuel stiebler [this message]
2023-09-04 17:07 ` [TUHS] " Warner Losh
2023-09-04 18:21   ` Dan Cross
2023-09-05 11:15   ` Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2023-09-05 14:15     ` Clem Cole
2023-09-05 17:03     ` Warner Losh
2023-09-04 14:44 [TUHS] " Norman Wilson
2023-09-04 14:55 ` [TUHS] " Vincenzo Nicosia
2023-09-04 17:20   ` Warner Losh
2023-09-04 19:05     ` Clem Cole
2023-09-05 17:03       ` Paul Winalski
2023-09-05 18:02         ` Clem Cole
2023-09-04 19:59     ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-09-04 23:51       ` Warner Losh
2023-09-04 17:18 ` Warner Losh
2023-09-04 22:10 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-09-05 15:53   ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-09-06 17:50     ` Warner Losh
2023-09-07  0:11       ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-09-07 16:05         ` Warner Losh
2023-09-08 14:58           ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-09-08 13:56     ` Michael Kjörling
2023-09-08 23:38       ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-09-09 22:43         ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-09-11  4:10         ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-09-11 22:05           ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-09-05  1:07 ` Jonathan Gray

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