From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Warren Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 22:35:08 -0600 Subject: [U-Boot] Unified u-boot feature set for simpler distro support In-Reply-To: <5205748D.7060308@wwwdotorg.org> References: <20130803021104.1fecaf5a@adria.ausil.us> <52056B16.7050102@wwwdotorg.org> <20130809224928.231FD380E1C@gemini.denx.de> <5205748D.7060308@wwwdotorg.org> Message-ID: <5205C2FC.2060007@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 08/09/2013 05:00 PM, Stephen Warren wrote: > On 08/09/2013 04:49 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: >> Dear Stephen Warren, >> >> In message <52056B16.7050102@wwwdotorg.org> you wrote: >>> >>> 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. >> >> It appears boot time and increased complexity are no concern to you? > > I don't think this is any different than a BIOS booting grub on x86. I suppose one way of addressing this might be for U-Boot to support grub.cfg; either by integrating some code from the Grub project or a re-implementation. This ends up pretty similar to Dennis' original suggestion, but with the advantage that that config file format is something already widely generated by distros.