Hello U-Boot community,
I'm David Downey, a software engineer at MIPS Technologies.
Currently, our Malta and SEAD-3 dev boards use YAMON, MIPS' in-house open source PROM monitor, as a boot loader. We are looking to migrate YAMON's functionality to U-Boot.
YAMON contains many features beyond the scope of a boot loader (e.g. bi-endianess, a EJTAG/GDB interface, a disassembler, etc.) that we would still like to make available to our customers. As you might expect, these features result in a large image size. (YAMON is 1 Mb, which is significantly larger than U-Boot's stated design max. of 256 Kb.)
Would there be any objection (legal or otherwise) to offering a "lean" (> 256 Kb) version of U-Boot for Malta/SEAD-3 through denx.de and a "deluxe" (~1 Mb) version of U-Boot (open source, of course) through developer.mips.com? If there are objections, do you have any suggestions on how we can still offer these features to our customers while not breaking U-Boot's 256 Kb design rule?
Thanks in advance!
Looking forward to working with you, David davidd@mips.commailto:davidd@mips.com