Been a rather intense discussion regarding U-Boot on IRC today, and time for some reflections and a little decision to be taken. In stage3 we do have an u-boot package which provides uboot images for pandaboard, trimslice, beagleboard and some more. The pandaboard requires u-boot on the boot media, while on trimslice the vendor provided u-boot is in reality quite sufficient and stored separately in a nor flash chip. Several (myself included) thinks it would be good if Fedora fully supported some boards, with both kernel & up to date bootloader (u-boot). But u-boot is not a fedora package today and will require both willing maintainers and package review to happen. So time for some questions. Should Fedora for ARM officially support for some well known boards? Do you think Fedora should provide the bootloader for well known boards where the required board support is merged mainline? Do you know anyone who would be willing to help maintain u-boot within Fedora? Should u-boot images then also be provided for boards without a trivial recovery mechanism in case an u-boot update fails? Where there is a risk of creating bricks if the user do not have jtag access to their board. Note: Supporting u-boot on boards without mainline u-boot support is not an option. Regards Henrik _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
