[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 1/3] add file with a default boot environment based heavily on Stephen Warrens recent tegra work.

Otavio Salvador
2014-02-22T12:56:42Z

Hello Tom,

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Tom Rini <trini@ti.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 09:31:36AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> Hello Tom,
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Tom Rini <trini@ti.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:29:19PM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> >> On 02/19/2014 12:24 PM, Dan Murphy wrote:
>> >> ...
>> >> > Do we have a directory where default scripts exist for each board? Or at least samples for each board?
>> >> >
>> >> > I could not find them. If they don't exist then we should probably put them in the board dirs and cp them to the respective out directory
>> >> >
>> >> > Maybe this would be something that helps defined the known good config that the community can base their changes on.
>> >>
>> >> For Tegra, I have created:
>> >>
>> >> https://github.com/NVIDIA/tegra-uboot-scripts
>> >>
>> >> I imagine those scripts would work on most boards that use the U-Boot
>> >> config in this patch series. I've certainly used almost identical
>> >> scripts on the Raspberry Pi.
>> >>
>> >> I should perhaps put an example extlinux.conf into that repo too.
>> >>
>> >> I imagine (well, it's pretty much the whole point) that distro
>> >> installers (e.g. Anaconda) will soon (or already do) support spitting
>> >> out extlinux.conf that'll work on ARM U-Boot too.
>> >
>> > Hey Otavio, is OpenEmbedded doing this yet? I know there's
>> > syslinux.conf support in since ages ago...
>>
>> As Denys said it is not yet supported but should be easily doable. :-)
>
> Well, can I suggest / beg that we get started? :) I'd love to see OE be
> ready when this is out in the next release.

Yes; I will start looking how to integrate it.

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