On 02/02/2012 02:41 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
Not going to happen, sadly. The rootfs is common across all the devices (armv5tel for soft-float, armv7hl for hard-float).
Hold up, there's a middle ground that we can shoot for here, even prior to everybody getting onboard with FDT.
Kernels are SoC specific. Not quite as narrowly specialized as device specific, but it's still not going to be a one-size-fits all, at least not any time soon (probably years).
What it really comes down to is getting the bootloader (typically uboot) to load a kernel and initramfs. Maybe it's an OMAP or a Tegra kernel, maybe it's Kirkwood or Highbank or Armada or or or... but you can squeeze all that onto one tarball.
The support grid is really just 2x2: You're either armv5tel or armv7hl. You either need a separate partition for bootloader bits (omap, etc scenario) or you don't (tegra scenario). Putting together tarball that has everything a person needs for most systems is doable. A couple paragraphs per board type for how to get the specific board type is all it will take in the way of specialized documentation. In most cases it will simply be a matter of a couple setenv commands.
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