Om2009 testing release 4

[Joachim Ott]

2009/6/2 Robin Paulson <robin.paulson at gmail.com>:
> 2009/6/2 Al Johnson <openmoko at mazikeen.demon.co.uk>:
>> On Tuesday 26 May 2009, Robin Paulson wrote:
>>> there's no incentive i can see to stay with uboot
>>
>> You probably don't have 4 different distros on your SD then ;-)
>
> no, i don't.
>
> but it doesn't look like it will be long before qi can do multi-boot
>
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Qi#Boot_Menu

Quoting from that paragraph:

- Therefore Qi does NOT provide a boot menu. This should rather be
implemented by a minimal Kernel, initramfs and menu system.

Qi will not initialize any video, that's why it needs to boot a
mini-kernel which then provides a boot menu where a user can select
from which partition he wants to boot. I ask you, what was wrong with
u-boot, which already did that without that mini-kernel? It cannot be
speeding up the boot-process, because the loading time for Qi or
u-boot cannot be much different, and when the kernel is loaded and
started, both loaders vanish. I'm sure you can add a kernel
cmdline-param -quiet to u-boot too.