From: Pavel Bartusek <pba@sysgo.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Re: Booting from ext2 partition
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 15:18:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4059AFA4.9040903@sysgo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20040318134514.DD344C0655@atlas.denx.de
Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>
> I will never reject an extension that is useful to some people and
> does not hurt all the others.
It is nice to hear such message :-)
> If your extension can be turned off (by
> compile-time configuration options) completely I see no reason not to
> add it.
Yes, it can.
>
> My personal opinion is that such features are more or less wasted
> effort, since the same result is usually easily available without
> this feature.
You are right, _usually_ you can live with additional partition for
kernel, but there can be a situation when we need boot directly from
some filesystem.
Give me some time and I'll port the reiserfs stuff to the latest U-Boot
and send it to this list.
Best regards
--
Pavel Bartusek <pba@sysgo.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-18 14:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-18 10:14 [U-Boot-Users] Re: Booting from ext2 partition Pavel Bartusek
2004-03-18 13:45 ` Wolfgang Denk
2004-03-18 14:18 ` Pavel Bartusek [this message]
2004-03-21 19:10 ` [U-Boot-Users] PATCH: Reisefs support Pavel Bartusek
2004-03-23 23:33 ` Wolfgang Denk
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