On 05/05/2016 09:26 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
Perhaps ARM could create a set of guidelines here?
Hahaha! Funniest thing I've heard all week :)
Of course, that would be the ideal, as would an industry that acted
rationally and listened to such requirements (frankly, I personally
would make basic platform standards a requirement of licensing the
architecture or any of its pieces). On server, we do it correctly by
forcefully separating platform flash from boot media and using "big
pointy stick" (aka OS vendor clout) to enforce compliance. While people
on non-server parts continue to misuse SD cards and other media to
contain bootloaders, they're going to get what they are asking for: a
mess. They can't really want real general purpose OS support until they
understand that to do this properly requires that you don't force
distros to ship firmware (sure, others will point out that distros do
this today and it just about works for some boards, etc.).
But is it really worth trying after so long of the right thing not
happening? If anyone really cared about making general purpose distros
boot on embedded boards, efforts to compel standards would have happened
years ago. To do it right, we would need to have a couple of vendors
involved who could compel vendors to comply.
Jon.
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