Thanks for the links Zach.

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Zach Pfeffer <pfeff...@gmail.com> wrote:
> John,
>
> I pulled the tree from:
>
> source: git://gitorious.org/pandaboard/u-boot.git
> branch: origin/omap4_panda_es2.0
> board config: omap4430panda_config
>
> (referenced http://omappedia.org/wiki/OMAP_Pandroid_Main#Getting_Started)
>
> -Zach
>
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Alexander Sack <a...@linaro.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Zach Pfeffer <pfeff...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Alexander Sack <a...@linaro.org> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Zach Pfeffer <pfeff...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 1:46 AM, Jim Huang <jim.hu...@linaro.org> wrote:
>>>>>> On 18 April 2011 14:40,  <patrik....@linaro.org> wrote:
>>>>>>> From: Patrik Ryd <patrik....@linaro.org>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In the Linaro set up u-boot will look for uImage (and not for kernel).
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>  tasks/kernel.mk |    4 ++--
>>>>>>>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> hi Patrik,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does this imply that we requires u-boot as necessary support for common 
>>>>>> LEB?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am not sure if we should introduce an abstract provider for kernel
>>>>>> image, but I prefer to specify in board configurations since we might
>>>>>> migrate to other 'fastboot' compatible boot loader implementations
>>>>>> such as lk (little kernel) used in Qualcomm patform.
>>>>>
>>>>> I haven't gotten into lk too much (used it and the legacy fastboot),
>>>>> but it seems that sticking with u-boot may be a better approach since
>>>>> it has wider community support and better cross-platform support. Was
>>>>> there a specific reason to move to lk?
>>>>
>>>> I am happy to have a discussion about our default android bootloader
>>>> at LDS in budapest.
>>>>
>>>> IIRC, one blueprint that John Rigby wanted to own is about adding
>>>> fastboot support to u-boot ... maybe thats a good compromise instead
>>>> of lk?
>>>
>>> That would be very nice. There's actually some documentation in u-boot
>>> about fastboot (a README). I wonder if there's some support already?
>>
>> Yes, I was told that someone (TI?) had a public tree with it. If all
>> goes well, John (CCed) would review those, clean the patches up,
>> upstream and integrate then into our u-boot branches so we can have
>> them for our LEB builds as well.
>>
>> --
>>
>>  - Alexander
>>
>

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