[U-Boot-Users] Microwindows on top of u-boot

himba himba at siol.net
Wed Sep 22 10:27:04 CEST 2004


Hi,

Greg Haerr, author of Microwindows, stated that Microwindows can be 
run without using any OS. All it needs is C-like enviroment. Since 
u-boot has support for standalone C applications, would it be doable 
to run MW on top of u-boot?

U-boot initializes a lot of peripherials too, and they could be used 
directly in MW. I belive that for simple GUI apps (touch screen, keys, 
framebuffer), controling basic functionality, that would be 
sufficient. This would also speed things up - no need to wait for OS 
to load and start up, gaining approx. 7-15 seconds.

Has anyone tried this?

regards,
himba




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