U-Boot improvements? (Was: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?)
Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
hns at computer.org
Thu Sep 24 20:08:53 CEST 2009
Am 24.09.2009 um 19:36 schrieb Rask Ingemann Lambertsen:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 04:18:30PM +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen <
>> ccc94453 at vip.cybercity.dk> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:11:04PM +0000, Niels Heyvaert wrote:
>>>
>>>> The idea of having a simple GUI boot loader could be very useful...
>>>
>>> We have one. It's called U-Boot. Or am I missing something?
No, except that it is not really "u-boot" but a 2 years old fork that
is now no longer maintained.
u-boot 2009.08 has improved many things that could be nice to have on
a GTA02 as well.
>>
>> Apart for a fact that it has problem loading kernels over a certain
>> size?
>
> Not as such, but it does lack kernel size detection when reading
> from
> NAND flash. The config shipped by OM limits NAND flash kernels to 2
> MB. Does
> anybody actually (want to) ship kernels larger than that? Andy-
> tracking's
> "packaging" config comes out to around 1.7 MB. NAND flash kernel size
> detection wouldn't be all that difficult to add, though. Around
> 10-20 lines
> of code.
>
>> Or that it requires the kernel on a separate partition (which must be
>> fat?)?
>
> It doesn't. I have the kernel on the Debian rootfs, which is ext2.
> I also
> have an old SHR installation, also with the kernel on the ext2 rootfs.
>
>> But this begs the question: could U-boot be improved to deal with the
>> current requirements of the users?
>
> Probably. The first step is to list the requirements.
>
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