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From: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] Unified u-boot feature set for simpler distro support
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 16:20:06 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52056B16.7050102@wwwdotorg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130803021104.1fecaf5a@adria.ausil.us>

On 08/03/2013 01:11 AM, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I wanted to start a discussion on defining a unified feature set that
> makes it simpler for the different distros to support ARM systems using
> u-boot. I have based a lot of my thoughts on how calxeda ship their
> systems configured as it works fairly well, recently i sent in a patch
> implementing most of what I would like to see for the wandboard[1]

There's also the possibility of chain-loading e.g. Grub from U-Boot,
which I think would satisfy at least some of your desires, although
there would still be a need for U-Boot's bootcmd to know to modified to
be able to load Grub, and also enable e.g. CONFIG_API, so still needs
some U-Boot work.

https://wiki.linaro.org/LEG/Engineering/Kernel/GRUBonUBOOT

I got it working pretty easily on one Tegra board...

An advantage would be familiar config file format and UI.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-08-09 22:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-03  7:11 [U-Boot] Unified u-boot feature set for simpler distro support Dennis Gilmore
2013-08-03 10:08 ` Peter Maydell
2013-08-05 16:25   ` Tom Rini
2013-08-04 19:48 ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-08-04 23:02   ` Dennis Gilmore
2013-08-05 18:39 ` Stephen Warren
2013-08-05 18:48   ` Stephen Warren
2013-08-05 20:26     ` Dennis Gilmore
2013-08-05 20:54       ` Stephen Warren
2013-08-05 19:50   ` Dennis Gilmore
2013-08-05 20:14     ` Tom Rini
2013-08-05 20:21     ` Stephen Warren
2013-08-05 20:43     ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-08-05 20:49       ` Stephen Warren
2013-08-05 21:00         ` Tom Rini
2013-08-05 21:09           ` Stephen Warren
2013-08-05 21:20             ` Tom Rini
2013-08-05 21:08       ` Dennis Gilmore
2013-08-05 22:06         ` Stephen Warren
2013-08-06 11:34           ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-08-05 19:01 ` Tom Rini
2013-08-05 20:11   ` Dennis Gilmore
2013-08-05 20:25     ` Tom Rini
2013-08-05 20:54       ` Dennis Gilmore
2013-08-05 21:02         ` Tom Rini
2013-08-05 20:45     ` Stephen Warren
2013-08-08 18:48 ` Dirk Müller
2013-08-08 20:01   ` Stephen Warren
2013-08-08 20:37     ` Tom Rini
2013-08-13 12:23     ` Dirk Müller
2013-08-10 21:02   ` Dennis Gilmore
2013-08-09 22:20 ` Stephen Warren [this message]
2013-08-09 22:49   ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-08-09 23:00     ` Stephen Warren
2013-08-10  4:35       ` Stephen Warren
2013-08-10 21:07         ` Dennis Gilmore
2013-08-12 13:56           ` Tom Rini
2013-08-10 10:11       ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-08-10 14:29         ` Adam Conrad
2013-08-10 21:05   ` Dennis Gilmore
2013-08-13 13:42 ` Tom Rini

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