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Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 16:51:05 +0200
From: Timo Teras <timo.teras@iki.fi>
To: Alba Pompeo <albapompeo@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] Aarch64 bootloader
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On Mon, 2 Jan 2017 12:35:04 -0200
Alba Pompeo <albapompeo@gmail.com> wrote:

> Better formatting. http://sprunge.us/JINJ
> 
> I think (E)LILO and GUMMIBOOT should be used where possible.

Gummiboot [1] and ELILO [2] are abandoned and should not be used.

> Platforms that don't support it could use SYSLINUX.
> For platforms that don't support any of those, GRUB2.
> And U-BOOT just as last resort.
> 
> I always heard GRUB2 was an abomination and superhuge, but it's "just"
> 150% the size of SYSLINUX.
> People could say that because they looked at the source code and it's
> really bad?
> I'm just doing some counting......

Comparing just lines of code is not accurate. For example in case of
u-boot it contains hardware level support for gazillion of CPUs and
peripherals. Only fraction of that is compiled based on the
configuration.

I do not have strong opinion on GRUB2/SYSLINUX. I should probably look
at the code form one... :)

Cheers,
Timo

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gummiboot_(software)
[2] https://sourceforge.net/projects/elilo/


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