On Monday 17 July 2006 1:08 pm, Hollis Blanchard wrote:

Seems to me that it's far better to have init code in the kernel than
firmware.

If there's a general Linux policy on the issue, I think that'd be it.

Plus, remember that boot firmware _can't_ always be changed/bugfixed;
sometimes it can, but not as a general rule.

- Dave

For one example, look at the x86 video card init problem 
PowerPC Linux has. It's also far easier to fix/deploy Linux code than
firmware code, as Li observed, and on top of that it's less work for
non-UBoot firmwares in the future.

-Hollis