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

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 16:20:06 -0600
Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:

> On 08/03/2013 01:11 AM, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I wanted to start a discussion on defining a unified feature set
> > that makes it simpler for the different distros to support ARM
> > systems using u-boot. I have based a lot of my thoughts on how
> > calxeda ship their systems configured as it works fairly well,
> > recently i sent in a patch implementing most of what I would like
> > to see for the wandboard[1]
> 
> 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.
> 
> https://wiki.linaro.org/LEG/Engineering/Kernel/GRUBonUBOOT
> 
> I got it working pretty easily on one Tegra board...
> 
> An advantage would be familiar config file format and UI.

It is definitely an option. not one I have looked at. It probably
should be added to the proposal.

Dennis