[U-Boot-Users] U-Boot-NG ?

[Andrew Dyer]

On 7/3/07, Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca> wrote:
> On 7/3/07, Andrew Dyer <amdyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I would like to see the 'second stage' of u-boot be made more modular.
> >  I imagine a set of basic code (console, environment, loader, storage
> > driver) would get loaded first and additional commands and drivers
> > could be stored as compressed uImages and loaded as needed and chained
> > onto the list of valid commands/functions.  This shouldn't be allowed
> > to get too out of hand (no automatic dependency resolution,
> > autoloading, or anything like that :-)
>
> Doesn't this already kind of exist in the form of u-boot applications?

Yes, but I'm proposing that more of the /u-boot/ functionality be made
application-like so things that get used only occasionally don't have
to be in the main boot flash.

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