On 13 February 2012 22:43, Paul Larson paul.larson@linaro.org wrote:
I think you misunderstood what I'm getting at. What I'm suggesting is that there should just be a proper hwpack for vexpress-a7/15+fastmodel. This wouldn't have to be supported forever, just until we have real hardware that can be used.
A hwpack supporting the fast model would be good, but my understanding of the workflow to use it would be: (1) use l-m-c to turn hwpack+rootfs into sd card image (2) unpack kernel and initrd from sd card image (3) boot on model using split kernel+initrd and the sd card image rootfs
My understanding from the discussion before is that this would be possible, but might require some modifications to the bootloader.
I'm not sure what bootloader you're talking about here. When booting a kernel on fast models there is no boot loader involved (this is why we have the boot-wrapper code).
If ARM can fix the 2GB limit, then what that means is *if* we someday need to test using a larger image, we can. But for now, it doesn't seem to be critical. I did mention this to Roger at the connect, but I'll also pursue this further with ARM just in case.
The reason to file feature requests formally is that the fast models are produced by a completely different part of ARM from that which Roger is in charge of. Obviously he can raise things internally if necessary [and it is worth keeping him in the loop] but mostly you're just adding a longer and lossier channel for the information :-)
-- PMM