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.