On 08/05/2013 01:50 PM, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > On Mon, 05 Aug 2013 12:39:03 -0600 Stephen Warren <swar...@wwwdotorg.org> > wrote: >> On 08/03/2013 01:11 AM, Dennis Gilmore wrote: >>> 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. ... >>> so this would mean similar partitioning. i.e. /boot on ext4 root and >>> swap on lvm or as raw partitions. people should be able to have >>> just / on ext4 also. Down the road xfs /boot support would be a >>> nice to have. >> >> That's only partially relevant for U-Boot. Two things U-Boot needs to >> support: >> >> * Filesystem read for whatever filesystem /boot is part of (it could >> very well be the / filesystem too, but U-Boot doesn't care, except >> for / vs. /boot in path names). This is a matter of adding the right >> flags to each board's U-Boot config file. > > right, but at the least it needs to be ext4 not all boards today read > ext4, btrfs may be something down the road also. u-boot doesnt need to > care too much. it just needs to look in / and /boot
Well, ext4 is nice, but presumably everything could work just as well with ext3 or ext2. It's not really an issue other than arguing semantics though; U-Boot has ext4 support so it's presumably just a matter of persuading the relevant board maintainers to enable it, or sending them patches to do so? ... >> [ Tegra boot.scr discussion ] > > While this is a step forward, its still much more than we need to do > if we enable pxe support and use sysboot to load a config file the > says load this kernel and initramfs and pass these bootargs. My > initial post had a fully working example. Oh, I must have not read your email correctly. I thought the config file you posted was as example of what you wanted to achieve, rather than something which already worked. Is it just a matter of turning on some config options in upstream U-Boot to enable this on Tegra? If so, I'd be very happy to create a patch to do so, test it with Fedora's images (got a link/README/...?) and send the patch to be applied. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
