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

2013-08-13 Thread Dirk Müller
Hi Stephen, Could you expand upon what handles booting from extX directly means? Upstream U-Boot has supported ext2/3 for as long as I've been involved with it (which admittedly isn't that long), and ext4 support was added recently. This allows U-Boot commands extload or load to access ext*

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

2013-08-08 Thread Dirk Müller
Hi Dennis, right or wrong we want things to be simple for the user and to largely look like a linux system on x86 would. The user and distro should never need to worry about memory locations so this would mean similar partitioning. i.e. /boot on ext4 root and swap on lvm or as raw