On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 22:35:08 -0600 Stephen Warren <swar...@wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> On 08/09/2013 05:00 PM, Stephen Warren wrote: > > On 08/09/2013 04:49 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > >> Dear Stephen Warren, > >> > >> In message <52056b16.7050...@wwwdotorg.org> you wrote: > >>> > >>> 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. > >> > >> It appears boot time and increased complexity are no concern to > >> you? > > > > I don't think this is any different than a BIOS booting grub on x86. > > I suppose one way of addressing this might be for U-Boot to support > grub.cfg; either by integrating some code from the Grub project or a > re-implementation. > > This ends up pretty similar to Dennis' original suggestion, but with > the advantage that that config file format is something already widely > generated by distros. the extlinux.conf file is common and widely used, but just with syslinux and booting optical media. Dennis _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
