[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 1/3] add file with a default boot environment based heavily on Stephen Warrens recent tegra work.

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 02:41:31PM -0500, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:29:19PM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
> > On 02/19/2014 12:24 PM, Dan Murphy wrote:
> > ...
> > > Do we have a directory where default scripts exist for each board?  Or 
> > > at least samples for each board?
> > > 
> > > I could not find them.  If they don't exist then we should probably put 
> > > them in the board dirs and cp them to the respective out directory
> > > 
> > > Maybe this would be something that helps defined the known good config 
> > > that the community can base their changes on.
> > 
> > For Tegra, I have created:
> > 
> > https://github.com/NVIDIA/tegra-uboot-scripts
> > 
> > I imagine those scripts would work on most boards that use the U-Boot
> > config in this patch series. I've certainly used almost identical
> > scripts on the Raspberry Pi.
> > 
> > I should perhaps put an example extlinux.conf into that repo too.
> > 
> > I imagine (well, it's pretty much the whole point) that distro
> > installers (e.g. Anaconda) will soon (or already do) support spitting
> > out extlinux.conf that'll work on ARM U-Boot too.
> 
> Hey Otavio, is OpenEmbedded doing this yet?  I know there's
> syslinux.conf support in since ages ago...

It certainly is possible to do the same in OE. The process wasn't unified 
enough across the platforms in order to do that, though...

-- 
Denys