Ping! Whats the action item here? Put out an RFC about unifying bootloaders or some such?
Regards, Peter On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Peter Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwa...@petalogix.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> > wrote: >> On 25 June 2012 09:55, Peter Crosthwaite >> <peter.crosthwa...@petalogix.com> wrote: >>> As for architectures, I can speak for Microblaze and the PPC >>> bootloader for virtex_ml507. The DTB will blob in regardless of >>> whether its an elf or not, so no is_linux switch is needed there for >>> my Linux elfs. There is no functional difference between linux and not >>> linux in those bootloaders. >> >> Yes, it is exactly the "on architecture X we behave like this and >> on architecture Y we do something else" that I dislike, and this is >> why I'm not happy with any patch which is just trying to band-aid >> a situation on architecture X rather than trying to address the >> more general situation. >> > > Well if X and Y behave differently and you want to unify them, then > either X or Y loses backwards compatibility. Someone is going to have > their command line change on them. > > Looking at some of the other bootloaders, I dont see others that > "assume elfs are not linux", so it seems to me that ARM is the > exception, not the rule. So from that unification would involve > getting rid of this ARM assumption that elfs are different. Just boot > the elf with the linux style bootloader like most other platforms. > >> -- PMM
