[U-Boot-Users] U-Boot-NG ?

[Jerry Van Baren]

Sascha Hauer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just prepared a git repository for our U-Boot-NG proposal. Do a
> 
> git clone http://iocaste.extern.pengutronix.de/git/U-Boot-NG.git
> 
> (no native git support at the moment)
> 
> There is also a tarball snapshot available here:
> 
> http://pengutronix.de/software/ptxdist/temporary-src/U-Boot-NG-20070702.tar.gz
> 
> This is only a temporary place for the source, further development should
> probably either be done on Wolgangs server or some other dedicated
> server.
> The tree is based on vanilla U-Boot-1.2.0.
> 
> As a starting point I've included the README in this mail. It's also
> included in the source tree under README.u2. Further documentation can be
> found under Documentation/ and of course in the code ;)
> 
> Regards,
>   Sascha Hauer

Hi Sascha,

This is very, very interesting.  One stupid ;-) question, what sort of 
trade-offs are we looking at, other than the lack of backwards support 
of various boards?  In particular, how does the memory footprint compare 
for an equivalently configured target?

Thanks,
gvb