Booting Linux on a Custom PPC Board

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <1078181934.4198.20.camel at budweiser> you wrote:
>
> We are writing our own boot loader code for a couple of reasons.
>
> o U-Boot does not support our ethernet chip or serial chip.

And you really  think  that  developing  a  complete  new  bootloader
(including drivers for your ethernet and serial chips) is less effort
or easier that just adding these drivers to U-Boot?

C'me on!

> o VxWorks is in flash and we cannot change that in the near future.
> o The VxWorks boot loader initializes the hardware and
>   we run our custom boot loader from its shell.

U-Boot can boot VxWorks just fine.


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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