[U-Boot-Users] Re: Booting from ext2 partition

[Pavel Bartusek]

Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> 
> I will never reject an extension that is useful to  some  people  and
> does not hurt all the others.
It is nice to hear such message :-)

> If your extension can be turned off (by
> compile-time configuration options) completely I see no reason not to
> add it.
Yes, it can.

> 
> My personal opinion is that such features are  more  or  less  wasted
> effort,  since  the  same  result is usually easily available without
> this feature.
You are right, _usually_ you can live with additional partition for 
kernel, but there can be a situation when we need boot directly from 
some filesystem.


Give me some time and I'll port the reiserfs stuff to the latest U-Boot 
and send it to this list.

Best regards

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Pavel Bartusek <pba at sysgo.com>
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