An alternative (but not necessaily to the exclusion of an SD card) would
be to have bootloader support a network boot and not just Flash or SD.
This would be part of wandboard bootloader so it may already be there or
on a wish list.

Some developers (especially when doing a new kernel port)  prefer
network boot (i.e. where device request image from a local networked
server)  as it can be quicker and avoids copying images to SD cards for
each iteration.  It can also avoid problems with different brand/classes
of SD cards.

If network boot is not there now, the advantage of a Wandboard approach
is that the SB player development would benefit should another Wandboard
developer add network boot to the bootloader.


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