Milo - Revision history

Ralf: Add to ARC category.

2006-05-17T11:27:34Z

Add to ARC category.

Ralf at 12:34, 1 June 2005

2005-06-01T12:34:49Z

Ralf at 13:36, 18 November 2004

2004-11-18T13:36:25Z

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Milo was the first generation bootloader used for Linux/MIPS on systems with [[Endianess|little endian]] [[ARC]] [[firmware]]. Started in summer [[1994]] Milo was the first bootloader for Linux/MIPS. Linux 2.1.131 for the [[RM 200]] was the last kernel that relied on Milo as the bootloader. Later kernels can directly be booted without the use of a second stage loader.

Other than serving a similar purpose Milo has no relation whatsoever to the Alpha program of the same name. The choice of the same name was pure coincidence. In the Alpha case the name was the abbreviation for ''Mini Loader'' while on MIPS it was chosen to be similar to the at that time predominant bootloader '''LILO'''. Changing the L into the letter following in the alphabet was meant as a pun similar to the names HAL and IBM in [[wikipedia:Arthur_C._Clarke|Arthur C.Clarke]] and [[Wikipedia:Stanley_Kubrick|Stanley Kubrick]]'s cult movie [[wikipedia:2001:_A_Space_Odyssey|2001: A Space Odyssey]].

==Milo status==
Milo is considered prehistoric. No systems that rely on it remain nor is it codebase considered useful for any development.

== External links==
* http://milo.core-systems.de/ Milo 2.0 for Alpha
* http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/MILO-HOWTO/ MILO-Howto for Alpha
* http://tafkac.org/movies/HAL_wordplay_on_IBM.html

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	Milo was the first generation bootloader used for Linux/MIPS on systems with [[Endianess\|little endian]] [[ARC]] [[firmware]]. Started in summer [[1994]] Milo was the first bootloader for Linux/MIPS. Linux 2.1.131 for the [[RM 200]] was the last kernel that relied on Milo as the bootloader. Later kernels can directly be booted without the use of a second stage loader.		Milo was the first generation bootloader used for Linux/MIPS on systems with [[Endianess\|little endian]] [[ARC]] [[firmware]]. Started in summer [[1994]] Milo was the first bootloader for Linux/MIPS. Linux 2.1.131 for the [[RM 200]] was the last kernel that relied on Milo as the bootloader. Later kernels can directly be booted without the use of a second stage loader.
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		+	Milo itself was an [[ECOFF]] binary because that's what an ARC firmware expects. The kernel it was booting however was a MIPS [[a.out]] format. The file utility will miss-identify such kernel binaries as ''PDP-11 executable''. Any kind of a.out support was removed from Linux/MIPS long before it became usable.

	Other than serving a similar purpose Milo has no relation whatsoever to the Alpha program of the same name. The choice of the same name was pure coincidence. In the Alpha case the name was the abbreviation for ''Mini Loader'' while on MIPS it was chosen to be similar to the at that time predominant bootloader '''LILO'''. Changing the L into the letter following in the alphabet was meant as a pun similar to the names HAL and IBM in [[wikipedia:Arthur_C._Clarke\|Arthur C.Clarke]] and [[Wikipedia:Stanley_Kubrick\|Stanley Kubrick]]'s cult movie [[wikipedia:2001:_A_Space_Odyssey\|2001: A Space Odyssey]].		Other than serving a similar purpose Milo has no relation whatsoever to the Alpha program of the same name. The choice of the same name was pure coincidence. In the Alpha case the name was the abbreviation for ''Mini Loader'' while on MIPS it was chosen to be similar to the at that time predominant bootloader '''LILO'''. Changing the L into the letter following in the alphabet was meant as a pun similar to the names HAL and IBM in [[wikipedia:Arthur_C._Clarke\|Arthur C.Clarke]] and [[Wikipedia:Stanley_Kubrick\|Stanley Kubrick]]'s cult movie [[wikipedia:2001:_A_Space_Odyssey\|2001: A Space Odyssey]].