2016-01-04 19:56 GMT+03:00 Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com>: > On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 05:25:44PM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: > > [snip] >> I am not aware of anyone using the U-Boot API for grub these days, so >> I'm not sure it's an incredibly useful goal. The main pain point distros >> seem to have is to make something that "just works" on all systems out >> there. Moving into that direction should be our ultimate goal. > > Please note that with the generic distro framework U-Boot will grok > https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec/ and
I would say this is pretty alpha spec. How should I specify fallback booting with it? Not to mention that currently grub2 perfectly boots from LVM and MD partitions in my installations and this is not supported in spec (from what I see). p.s. > Currently there's little cooperation between multiple distributions in dual-boot (or triple, ... multi-boot) setups Have you ever seen anybody really needed it? > things Just Work. I setup a bunch of SD cards with Debian and Fedora > over holiday so I can drop them in whatever board and boot up Linux as a > sanity test. > > I certainly can see a usecase for kicking off an EFI binary as part of > fitting into existing work-flows. But we do already have a something > for getting rid of that particular pain-point and it's working :) > > -- > Tom -- With best regards, Matwey V. Kornilov http://blog.matwey.name xmpp://0x2...@jabber.ru _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
