Am 06.04.2013 um 01:00 schrieb Scott Wood <address@hidden>:
> On 04/04/2013 06:59:24 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> On 04.04.2013, at 13:53, Andreas Färber wrote:
>> > For PReP, Fabien has not stated what his use case actually is (in
>> > particular which hardware?), so it's hard for me to comment on
what the
>> > hardware actually does and I thus won't accept random changes
just
>> > because they happen to be in Leon3 code. There's nothing
conceptually
>> > wrong with loading ELF code so I'm positive we will find a
solution to
>> > accommodate all use cases in some way. :)
>> I think it makes a lot of sense to support loading -kernel as an
ELF binary. I don't think it's a good idea to allow -kernel without
any BIOS. We do that on the e500 machines and so far it's mostly hurt
us.
>
> If by "mostly hurt us" you mean allowed things to work without
having to do a bunch of hacking to create a paravirt U-Boot and/or
implement a bunch of emulation that we don't really need otherwise.
I mean that we lack compatibility. The less we diverge from what
users are used to, the better usability becomes for users.
Just try to run *BSD on e500. Good luck ;)