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

[Stephen Warren]

On 08/09/2013 05:00 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 08/09/2013 04:49 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>> Dear Stephen Warren,
>>
>> In message <52056B16.7050102 at wwwdotorg.org> you wrote:
>>>
>>> There's also the possibility of chain-loading e.g. Grub from U-Boot,
>>> which I think would satisfy at least some of your desires, although
>>> there would still be a need for U-Boot's bootcmd to know to modified to
>>> be able to load Grub, and also enable e.g. CONFIG_API, so still needs
>>> some U-Boot work.
>>
>> It appears boot time and increased complexity are no concern to you?
> 
> I don't think this is any different than a BIOS booting grub on x86.

I suppose one way of addressing this might be for U-Boot to support
grub.cfg; either by integrating some code from the Grub project or a
re-implementation.

This ends up pretty similar to Dennis' original suggestion, but with the
advantage that that config file format is something already widely
generated by distros.