Hi ksi (was it Sergei?), >> The fundamental concept of u-boot isn't to handle all your devices, it is to >> boot linux (or other OS) and use the OS to handle the multiple devices. > > The same is true for a PC BIOS, but it DOES handle all of my devices. And it > allows me to choose which device to boot from. And it is extendable so I can > add a PCI card with e.g. RAID controller and boot off of that RAID. And it > is not handling of all devices, it is _BASIC_ functionality...
Actually I don't know what you're talking about in the PC BIOS area here. Usually the computers I own cannot boot from the devices that are bought somewhat after the motherboard. But maybe you have different instances of computers... > I don't mind reconfiguring and rebuilding the thing for my parcticular > configuration instead of just changing some settings in interactive setup > utility, but the current implementation won't allow even that... Actually we are thinking about "going generic" here also for a while already. Look for example at the BOF session notes of OLS 2007[1] "Device Tree Run Time Configuration". We are all aware that a "proper" device model will be needed at a certain stage, only nobody started into that direction yet. As Jerry pointed out - booting embedded hardware used to be a comparably simple operation ;) Cheers Detlev [1] http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/U-Boot/OLSUbootBOF -- ... that every year or so they're going to give you a new release full of 50 000 additional lines of code all written by monkeys. Because they generally follow the ``million monkeys typing, and eventually they'll come up with something useful'' school of system development. -- Richard M. Stallman -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-40 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: d...@denx.de _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot