[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 8/8] ARM: Present a menu of bootable options on boot

Mike Dunn mikedunn at newsguy.com
Thu Apr 11 15:02:56 CEST 2013


On 04/10/2013 06:43 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 8:12 AM, Suriyan Ramasami <suriyan.r at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Initialize usb and ide.
>> Scan through the usb for storage and boot capable partitions.
>> Scan through the ide interface for boot capable partitions.
>> Present such bootable options to the user to choose to boot from
>> If the user does not choose any choose the default option
>> the default option is the option chosen by the user the last time
>> If no such default option exists, boot from the first possible
>> bootable option.
> 
> This all sounds very generic but...
> 
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Suriyan Ramasami <suriyan.r at gmail.com>
>> ---
>> Changes in v2:
>>         - Coding style changes
>>
>>  board/Seagate/goflexhome/goflexhomemenu.c |  415 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> but this is not a generic location. This feature would interest me and
> probably Stephen as well.


I was thinking along these lines as well for the treo 680.  Suriyan, perhaps we
can collaborate, with the guidance of the maintainers here.

Mike


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