Here it is...

I'm not sure it belongs here but I think it would be right thing to include initial bootloaders for platforms that require them into U-Boot tree. It might be subtrees under board directories, a separate boot/ or something off the main tree or anything else.

The reason is simple -- U-Boot is supposed to be the first program that runs on a system, kinda like pee-see BIOS or something, but some platforms require even lower level program, bootloader, to either load U-Boot upon startup or to write it in system ROM. If we had those in the U-Boot tree we would've had everything required to bringup a virgin board in one place.

I personally don't see any other place for those small programs to go. We do have U-Boot for a lot of absolutely different platforms in the same tree so one doesn't have to search for a particular port at obscure places and I feel that adding initial bootloaders would make it even better.

What do you think guys?

As for the actual DaVinci bootloader, it is in attached tar.gz. It is not polished, ugly at places but it works and it doesn't require any Windoze, sorry for an expression, "servers" or proprietary tools. It works with both small and large page NAND.

There is a rather brief readme inside the archive that explains what it is, how to run it and documents formats.

Any comments are welcome.

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