[Arm-netbook] RAM, uboot

[David Given]

On 12/05/12 00:04, lkcl luke wrote:
[...]
>  ... when are people going to get it into their heads that u-boot is a
> dog's dinner that needs to be dropped off at the nearest convenient
> warzone and nuked to the bedrock?

The good news is that kexec works, if you enable it in the kernel!

In terms of actual bootloaders, Open Firmware has an ARM port:
http://www.openfirmware.info/Building_OFW_for_ARM

FWIW I'm not using an initrd. Too much work. I just boot Debian directly
from the kernel instead.

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