Dear Dennis, In message <20130805145059.14c35...@adria.ausil.us> you wrote: > > right, but at the least it needs to be ext4 not all boards today read > ext4, btrfs may be something down the road also. u-boot doesnt need to > care too much. it just needs to look in / and /boot
Where exactly do you raw the line here? Do we have to support RAID / DM devices, too? What about LVM? If you look for "regular system usage", using such technologies is more or less standard today. Will we need that? > > The rest of the stuff (swap, LVM, ...) seems entirely related to the > > distro itself and/or whatever gets put into the initrd. > Mostly i was trying to show that where the other bits live doesn't > matter. Well, what about the case where /boot resides - say - on a multi-drive RAID1 array? > While this is a step forward, its still much more than we need to do > if we enable pxe support and use sysboot to load a config file the > says load this kernel and initramfs and pass these bootargs. My > initial post had a fully working example. Is my understanding correct that boot times are only a secondary concern to you, if any? > for fedora 20 i plan to use raw MLO support for OMAP and have it load > the u-boot.img from the first bootable partition. SuSE are doing this Please look into Tom's proposal to got the SPL / Falcon mode way. I fully agre with him there. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de Where people stand is not as important as which way they face. - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Briggs, _The Discworld Companion_ _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot