>> I recall looking at a newer uboot-tools (2015-01 I think), but it did
>> not generate a booting system, so I got back to the tried 2011 version.
>> We might want to do some testing before putting in a newer version.
>
> The latest uboot, as shipped with recent Fedoras doesn't even _build_
> on armv5tel (invalid assembly instructions). The reason why I built
> the ones I mentioned was because I needed a more recent version to
> uimage up a kernel for my Chromebook. I don't know whether the uboot
> firmware payload itself works, but at least it builds (I only needed
> mkimage).
>
maybe that is what I've seen. I just looked at the latest, it didn't
work and went back.

> I'm currently looking at porting zfs-dracut to zfs-fuse, and then
> I'll try to build a blob containing the device tree, kernel and the
> initrd to try to get zfs-fuse-rootfs working. The outcome of this will
> hopefully be reasonably portable to other things using similar uboot
> (e.g. do your machines use uboot? I seem to recall you said that
> running them with initrd was somewhat... experimental).
yes that's for the raspi stuff. odroid needs the mkimage also.

Jacco
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