[ACTIVITY] Meeting minutes from 20111006 (this week's meeting)

[Ilias Biris]

Meeting minutes are in:
https://wiki.linaro.org/OfficeofCTO/BootArchitecture/2011-10-06

In particular note

- the decision for the focus in a two-pronged approach for short and
long term goals ( see
https://wiki.linaro.org/OfficeofCTO/BootArchitecture/2011-10-06#Minutes
 for details, below is just a summary)

  + SHORT TERM pain points are summarized below - the list needs
priorization and to be shown to the TSC so that suitable resources are
assigned to do the work
   - support for Uboot
   - kernel update process/method
   - making every uboot behave the same way
   - how does uboot decide what kernel to load - does not have to be
uboot specific fix, could be a script for uboot
   - single zImage able to boot on multiple SOCs
   - support for grub on uboot.
   - Port tianocore as a uboot app
   - uboot should understand which is the active partition - or should
have a mechanism to tell the user which is the active partition

  + LONG TERM goals (strategic and design issues): there is a vendors'
interest in standards process - which the Linux community has not been
extremely involved with in the past. So we should work with the
standards - get familiar with the existing standards

For next week - ALL should download and get familiar with ACPI/UEFI
specs (and open firmware ones - if not already familiar with those).

Let me know if there is something missing or wrong in the minutes, I can
update as indicated.

Best regards,

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