With support from Wolfgang Denk, we can offer a flexible way to boot embedded PowerPC based devices using Linux. In the embedded world, it is very important to provide a flexible way of configuring the system environment. Developers must be able to decide which components are really needed within the actual target system. It is also important to auto-detect hardware components at runtime, for example flash memory sizes or CPU, in order to allow flexible extention of PowerPC hardware to be possible without needing to change the code. Support for other devices such as USB or FireWire will also be implemented in the future, given sufficient interest.
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