Unable to modify from U-Boot to Qi.

[Andy Green]

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Somebody in the thread at some point said:
| Andy Green wrote:
|> If I got the wrong idea, check that /boot/uImage-GTA02 exists on that
|> ext3 partition.
|
| By the way, it may help people making the jump from u-boot to Qi if
| they could just reuse the same configuration. That way, they can
| test that everything works to their satisfaction with the u-boot
| they're familiar with and won't have a bad first encounter with Qi.

"Configuration" is just the kernel name on SD Card?  I get the point but
I don't think it's making much trouble.  GTA02 use of Qi is basically
elective but on GTA03 the packaging will already use the right name so
that's OK.  The worst that can happen is booting from NAND due to wrong
name in SD.

| With microSD, I think all that's missing is FAT support. If keeping
| the semantics reasonable (no VFAT name handling, no subdirectories,
| just files), that would be pretty easy to do.
|
| What do you think ?

~ - It's not there already because you can't use FAT as a rootfs, and Qi
mounts the filesystem it got the kernel from as the rootfs.

~ - It's also less fragile from updating point of view to have the kernel
image live inside the actual rootfs.

~ - Kernel inside rootfs allows independent updating of multiple rootfs
on the same card as well, each with private kernel.

So I don't think it's good to support the split FAT / ext2 thing we
happen to be stuck with in NOR U-Boot (which we have only because ext2
parsing in U-Boot was broken at that time).

- -Andy
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