On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Dennis Gilmore <dennis@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:12:39 -0500 > Jon Masters <jcm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 03/08/2012 01:07 PM, Jon Masters wrote: >> >> > Anyway. All this means that on ARM, in some cases (won't be true on >> > servers), especially inexpensive dev boards, we become the >> > distributor of the U-Boot bits if we want to ship whole SD Card >> > images (which we think we do - otherwise installation on Panda or >> > Pi becomes harder, on servers and other systems we'll do x86-like >> > Anaconda and PXE later). I think we could build U-Boot ourselves, >> > especially in the case of boards where we can't brick them just by >> > having a bad build. Generally, I don't want to distribute "BIOS" >> > code in the longer term beyond those cases where we need to shove >> > something on an SD Card image by nature of the way that the cards >> > boot. In other cases, I prefer we don't build or ship something, >> > e.g. for U-Boot where it is shipped in flash on the board or in >> > cases where we might be able to brick a board. >> >> So I can get behind (reluctantly) us building e.g. a uboot package >> with subpackages for e.g. OMAP boards like Panda, Beagle, etc. and >> then pulling in the result. Since we're constraining the number of >> "whole disk" images we want to make (these are an installation >> convenience) we can keep the set of U-Boot bits we actually build >> fairly small. If someone has a funky board, then can put this stuff >> together. Until we get to the future bigger ARM systems, where this >> is a non-issue. >> >> Jon. > > while a bit ugly > http://ausil.us/packages/x-loader-1-1.fc15.src.rpm > http://ausil.us/packages/x-loader.spec > > and a binary compiled version > http://ausil.us/packages/x-loader-1-1.fc15.armv7hl.rpm > > ive not yet tested that the built versions will actually load uboot to > boot a system > > it builds and packages up the MLO x-load.bin x-load.bin.ift for the > supported boards from the git tree at > git://gitorious.org/x-loader/x-loader.git Ah, for the beagle/panda, you can drop the x-loader requirement.. As of v2011.12, u-boot's SPL now builds a proper MLO file that replaces the former MLO file from the X-Loader project, for these devices.. For u-boot v2012.03 even more former only X-Loader devices have been converted.. Just a note: X-Loader: MLO -> u-boot.bin -> kernel/etc.. u-boot SPL: MLO -> u-boot.img -> kernel/etc.. Regards, -- Robert Nelson http://www.rcn-ee.com/ _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
