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

Otavio Salvador otavio at ossystems.com.br
Thu Feb 20 13:31:36 CET 2014


Hello Tom,

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> 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...

As Denys said it is not yet supported but should be easily doable. :-)

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