Werner Almesberger wrote: > Paul Fertser wrote: ... >> I hope some guys who want that fancy bootmenu will come soon with a >> decent solution, if they don't that means they don't really need it ;) > > Yeah, I'm hoping we can "outsource" this to the community but > perhaps a proof of concept is needed to get things going.
I rather agree with Paul on this. The proof-of-concept has already been done, and all the ingredients are pretty much pre-packaged already. All the bitbake recipes, including kexec-tools as well as a mechanism to create a minimal rootfs with a menu are already in OE, and are running on other devices. Perhaps when the GTA03 comes out without u-boot at all, there will be renewed interest in a menu, and this will come to happen. But it should come from the community; Openmoko shouldn't be spending cycles building this. At most, the involvement of the Openmoko kernel team should be to ensure that the drivers and kernel behave correctly with regard to kexec -- and that already seems to be the case, at least on the kernels I've tested (I use kexec rather a lot to test kernels). Mike (mwester)
