this week work on KBOOT

[Andy Green]

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Somebody in the thread at some point said:
| Dear Xiangfu,
| sounds good!
| I wouldn't worry about being slow at the beginning. Openmoko is big and
| once you spend some time to understand the system, you will become a lot
| faster in the future.
|
| Andy, are you saying we should not use Kexec/Kboot? Just a reduced u-boot?
| Unfortunately Werner is on vacation so we have to guess what he would say.
| Can you settle on something and give Xiangfu clear direction? Then
| hopefully once Werner is back he will agree with that...

I explained over a month ago that kexec / kboot is not critical for us
compared to bootloader simplification.

http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/openmoko-kernel/2008-April/002561.html

Clear direction:

1) reduce the bootloader to a minimum and use the fixed worst-case
partitioning offset method instead of dynparts,

2) implement backup kernel and rootfs,

3) figure out if kboot / kexec buys us ANYTHING over what we already
have at that point so we should even bother thinking about it.

- -Andy
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