Hello Andreas, On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Andreas Färber <afaer...@suse.de> wrote: > Am 28.10.2015 um 09:31 schrieb Matwey V. Kornilov: >> 27.10.2015 22:43, Misha Komarovskiy пишет: >>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 9:52 PM, Matwey V. Kornilov >>> <matwey.korni...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> 27.10.2015 11:04, Guillaume Gardet пишет: >>>>> Le 26/10/2015 19:52, Matwey V. Kornilov a écrit : >>>>>> Why bootmenu command is not used atm? Are there any reasons? >>> >>> You mean ansi bootmenu? If yes, ac100 community member tried to enable >>> it for our board, >>> but extlinux.conf was proposed as better solution, here is link >>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/450122/ >>> >>> I tried to use extlinux.conf with openSUSE on Chromebook Snow, >>> because its support already enabled there, and it work flawlessly and >>> very flexible, >>> take a look at README.distro in u-boot repo, also as it is same as pxe >>> config file kiwi probably already have >>> support for it. >>> >>> Here is example of my test extlinux.conf: > [...] >> Nice. I cannot understand is it uboot who runs extlinux or just support >> of extlinux configuration file syntax inside uboot? > > As far as I understand, someone would need to generate such config file > into the filesystem for U-Boot to read. That's the big problem I see > with it. If you want to dive into YaST, perl-bootloader or whatever is > involved there, feel free to give it a try!
Yes we need to generate this file and put inside resulting JeOS image, same way we generate boot.scr but to /extlinux folder on boot partition and extlinux.conf is not compiled it is plain text file. Maybe it abilities not that flexible as boot.scr yet, i dont know for sure, need to make tests. > > Some solution for handling multiple kernels is bitterly needed. > > In YaST not even grub2 was supported on ARMv7 last time I tried - that's > the alternative to extlinux. It requires CONFIG_API to be enabled, for > which I have a u-boot branch. It also requires grub2 to be patched for > the RAM address of some boards. > > Regards, > Andreas > > -- > SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany > GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton; HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscr...@opensuse.org > To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+ow...@opensuse.org > -- Best Regards, Misha Komarovskiy zombahatgmaildotcom -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscr...@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+ow...@opensuse.org
