[U-Boot] config: enable CONFIG_API in distro config

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Mon Apr 21 20:05:12 CEST 2014


On 04/21/2014 11:57 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Dennis,
> 
> On 21 April 2014 08:49, Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us
> <mailto:dennis at ausil.us>> wrote:
> 
>     On Sun, 20 Apr 2014 09:55:53 -0700
>     Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org <mailto:sjg at chromium.org>> wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
>     > Can you suggest a starting point for trying this out on am ARM
>     > platform? (e.g. OMAP, Tegra, Exynos) I'd like to see how it works.
> 
>     as of 2014.04 it will work on tegra, its worked on calxeda since it was
>     added but their default environment is outside of u-boot itself. I have
>     some patches submitted that need futher thought and work converting
>     omap and wandboard. If you have a prefered platform I can throw
>     together a patch for you to test.
> 
> 
> Tegra is OK - I have a trimslice and a badger(?) if either of those is
> OK. So do I just try to install Fedora and see what happens?

s/badger/Beaver/

Yes, both of those support finding and executing /boot/extlinux.cfg in
mainline.

I've just been manually creating extlinux.cfg for now. An example might be:

> TIMEOUT 30
> default primary
> 
> MENU TITLE Venice2 eMMC boot options
> 
> LABEL primary
>        MENU LABEL primary kernel
>        LINUX zImage
>        FDTDIR./
>        APPEND console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty1 rootwait rw root=PARTUUID=5f71e06f-be08-48ed-b1ef-ee4800cc860f
> 
> LABEL backup
>        MENU LABEL backup kernel
>        LINUX backup/zImage
>        FDTDIR backup/
>        APPEND console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty1 rootwait rw root=PARTUUID=5f71e06f-be08-48ed-b1ef-ee4800cc860f



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