From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Bartusek Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 15:18:12 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Re: Booting from ext2 partition References: <20040318134514.DD344C0655@atlas.denx.de> Message-ID: <4059AFA4.9040903@sysgo.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.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 Software Engineering SYSGO Real-Time Solutions AG | Embedded and Real-Time Software Lise-Meitner-Str.15 89081 Ulm, Germany Voice: +49-731-9533-1295 FAX: +49-731-94683-10 www.sysgo.com | www.elinos.com | www.osek.de