[U-Boot] Unified u-boot feature set for simpler distro support

[Tom Rini]

On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 02:01:12PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 08/08/2013 12:48 PM, Dirk M?ller wrote:
> ...
> > Therefore, the openSUSE on ARM team has a locally patched version of
> > u-boot that handles booting from extX directly, because we did not
> > like to use FAT or anything similar for /boot, and didn't see the need
> > for adding a special /load (or similar) partition that is only there
> > to make u-boot happy.
> 
> Could you expand upon what "handles booting from extX directly" means?
> Upstream U-Boot has supported ext2/3 for as long as I've been involved
> with it (which admittedly isn't that long), and ext4 support was added
> recently. This allows U-Boot commands "extload" or "load" to access ext*
> just like any other file-system. Is there something more involved when
> you say "booting from extX directly" beyond just the extload/load commands?

I think (and hope!) this is SPL loading u-boot from ext* rather than
having to be from FAT.  This should be doable in such a way that we can
handle both FAT and ext* in the same binary, now that we have generic
load commands now.

-- 
Tom
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