> Am 25.08.2014 um 20:52 schrieb Andreas Färber <[email protected]>: > > Am 25.08.2014 20:36, schrieb Alexander Graf: >> On 25.08.14 19:27, Andreas Färber wrote: >>> Am 25.08.2014 16:56, schrieb Alexander Graf: >>>> On 25.08.14 16:54, Matwey V. Kornilov wrote: >>>>> 25.08.2014 14:05, Andreas Färber пишет: >>>>>> We need a FAT partition >>>>> >>>>> Why are all of them (I mean vendor supplied U-boot) so in love with FAT? >>>>> There is support of ext2 in U-boot, and they boot nothing but Linux. >>>> >>>> Yeah, can't we do the RPi model with binary blobs (FAT) + /boot (ext2) + >>>> / (ext4)? >>> >>> Hm? You and Marcus already did that for the RPi looong time ago. :) >>> >>> For the Parallella the issue is that downstream U-Boot is on flash, and >>> I don't want to brick the board I had to wait for so long with U-Boot >>> upstreaming experiments of my own. (There's no direct JTAG connector.) >>> >>> I could try to change my local boot environment, but then a JeOS image >>> would not be of general use. By default, it tries to boot uImage + >>> devicetree.dtb without looking for a boot.scr even. So unless we can >>> chainload another U-Boot as "uImage" via bootm command with a dummy >>> devicetree.dtb, we can't move the kernel to another partition nor >>> fatload-incompatible filesystem. >> >> Does that u-boot support ext2? If so, I think it's reasonable to have >> people do >> >> # setenv bootcmd <foo> >> # saveenv >> >> before they can run openSUSE on their boards :). And in that setenv that >> we write into the wiki we would make it search for boot.scr on ext2. > > Well, it boils down to: Is it reasonable to expect that every openSUSE > user of the board has a matching UART TTL adapter? On other boards > that's been optional, in case everything Just Works(tm). You just stick > our card in and you're good.
Just trying to be creative to make everyone's life easier ;). > > If we no longer want to support original flashed firmware, then surely > there's some simplifications we can start making in the JeOS sources. Well, we still want the original firmware. The only thing I would consider ok for mandatory modification is the config. But I don't really have a strong opinion either way, whatever gets you there fastest and makes life reasonably easy for others is a win IMHO :). Alex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
