On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Zach Pfeffer <pfeff...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Alexander Sack <a...@linaro.org> wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Zach Pfeffer <pfeff...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 1:46 AM, Jim Huang <jim.hu...@linaro.org> wrote: >>>> On 18 April 2011 14:40, <patrik....@linaro.org> wrote: >>>>> From: Patrik Ryd <patrik....@linaro.org> >>>>> >>>>> In the Linaro set up u-boot will look for uImage (and not for kernel). >>>>> --- >>>>> tasks/kernel.mk | 4 ++-- >>>>> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >>>> >>>> hi Patrik, >>>> >>>> Does this imply that we requires u-boot as necessary support for common >>>> LEB? >>>> >>>> I am not sure if we should introduce an abstract provider for kernel >>>> image, but I prefer to specify in board configurations since we might >>>> migrate to other 'fastboot' compatible boot loader implementations >>>> such as lk (little kernel) used in Qualcomm patform. >>> >>> I haven't gotten into lk too much (used it and the legacy fastboot), >>> but it seems that sticking with u-boot may be a better approach since >>> it has wider community support and better cross-platform support. Was >>> there a specific reason to move to lk? >> >> I am happy to have a discussion about our default android bootloader >> at LDS in budapest. >> >> IIRC, one blueprint that John Rigby wanted to own is about adding >> fastboot support to u-boot ... maybe thats a good compromise instead >> of lk? > > That would be very nice. There's actually some documentation in u-boot > about fastboot (a README). I wonder if there's some support already?
Yes, I was told that someone (TI?) had a public tree with it. If all goes well, John (CCed) would review those, clean the patches up, upstream and integrate then into our u-boot branches so we can have them for our LEB builds as well. -- - Alexander _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
