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From: Alba Pompeo <albapompeo@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 13:38:02 -0200
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Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] Aarch64 bootloader
To: Timo Teras <timo.teras@iki.fi>
Cc: alpine-dev <alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org>
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Found an interesting one. Qi.

Qi is a lightweight replacement for the uBoot bootloader with
everything that doesn't assist "loading" and "booting" Linux stripped
out.
https://github.com/radekp/qi



On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Alba Pompeo <albapompeo@gmail.com> wrote:
> You're right.
> I'll wait to see what you discover after you study the source code more deeply.
> Thanks!
>
> OpenWrt has a page on bootloaders.
> https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/techref/bootloader
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 12:51 PM, Timo Teras <timo.teras@iki.fi> wrote:
>> 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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