From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: horms@verge.net.au (Simon Horman)
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:29:48 +0900
Subject: ARM Machine SoC I/O setup and PAD initialization code
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On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 08:20:34AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:32:53AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> > Would it be feasible to  use Linux + kexec as the boot loader as
> > a long term solution to fixing boot loaders by eliminating them?
> 
> So what you're proposing is that a broken boot loader should boot a
> version of Linux to fix the pin MUX, which then kexecs a kernel which
> doesn't have that code?
> 
> What's the point of that - when the first kernel will be able to run
> the system?

Ok, point taken, its impossible to remove the boot loaders.