From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Warren Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 16:20:06 -0600 Subject: [U-Boot] Unified u-boot feature set for simpler distro support In-Reply-To: <20130803021104.1fecaf5a@adria.ausil.us> References: <20130803021104.1fecaf5a@adria.ausil.us> Message-ID: <52056B16.7050102@wwwdotorg.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de 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.