[Arm-netbook] "allwinner's A10" codenamed "sun4i crane", linux kernel v2.6.36 patch available

[Bari Ari]

On 11/12/2011 04:38 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>   Endless code bloat isn't the solution, even if the SoC manufacturers
>   were to decide to provide long term support/maintenance of their kernel
>   contributions. The obvious solution is to come up with a standard ARM
>   BIOS - but the chances of that happening any time soon (and probably at
>   all) is pretty close to 0.
>
>
All ARM should need is hardware init and a bootloader. Not  a BIOS. Some 
closed source x86 BIOS vendors are trying to fool dumb ARM vendors into 
thinking they need a BIOS or EFI firmware.

U-boot has been around for a while and ARM tablet makers are still 
developing their own firmware to lock down their hardware. coreboot has 
also recently been ported to ARM and can also run uboot as a payload. 
coreboot's advantage over u-boot is its support and configuration for 
PCI/PCIe that might come in handy for multicore ARM server designs . ARM 
doesn't need a BIOS for Linux the same as x86 hasn't needed a BIOS to 
support Linux for over 10 years.

http://www.coreboot.org/Welcome_to_coreboot

http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot

-Bari