[U-Boot] U-boot for Arm cortexA8

JerryVanBaren gerald.vanbaren at ge.com
Thu Aug 21 14:03:20 CEST 2008


Nishanth Menon wrote:
> Alwin,
> 
> alwin.mathew at wipro.com said the following on 08/20/2008 11:04 PM:

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> By the way, disclaimers such as those above are pretty dis-concerting to
> an open community I guess looking at previous discussions on the same..
> for e.g. see
> http://www.nabble.com/Help-needed-for-porting-linux-on-mpc8260-based-custom-board-to2182946.html#a2182946

With apologies for promoting my own messages, here is a more elaborate 
description of why these disclaimers are stupid:
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/43556/focus=43764>

...and some sympathy:
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/32795/focus=33146>

> You could probably speak to your IT folks about this.. They might have
> email list configuration which are white listed and disclaimers would
> not appear when send to those lists.

That is a very good suggestion.

> Regards,
> Nishanth Menon

HTH,
gvb


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