Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

[Rask Ingemann Lambertsen]

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 12:00:46AM +0400, Paul Fertser wrote:

> Qi was created to have a minimal simple easily maintainable
> bootloader, take a look at coreboot project to understand the idea
> behind Qi. U-boot is just wrong for this kind of device: it's
> neverending porting of Linux drivers to u-boot which doesn't make much
> sense when you can boot Linux, the kernel directly.

   So why doesn't Qi do that? Qi also has drivers for PMU, NAND flash, SD
card, file systems, etc. Why not boot a kernel directly?

> Lack of menu with initramfs says imho that nobody really needs it or
> else it would have been created long time ago.

   No, months ago I made a trimmed down kernel for the purpose and would
have given the initramfs menu a shot months ago if only the required kexec()
interface was documented somewhere. Since it isn't, I'm stuck with U-Boot,
which to me isn't really all that bad.

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