Resending unsigned Hi Wolfgang,
On Sun, 04 Aug 2013 22:00:04 +0200 Wolfgang Denk <w...@denx.de> wrote: > Dear Dennis, > > In message <20130801120603.1683f...@adria.ausil.us> you wrote: > > > > ultimately I want to have a standard way to boot any system that > > just works and does not need the installer to know or care what the > > target system is. using boot.scr and uEnv.txt does not work for my > > goals. > > But your requirement is just one out of a number of such requirements, > and I see no indication that an "one size fits all" approach would be > possible. It should be possible for those systems that want a generic linux distro to run on them. AFAIK the wandboard systems are one of those that do. It's also a system that doesn't ship with any onboard storage so distros are forced to build u-boot for it. > > ultimately for Fedora we do not want to use uEnv.txt or boot.scr at > > all we want to use a extlinux.conf file and sysboot provided by > > cmd_pxe the rest is to provide flexibility and options to users to > > choose different ways to boot. the above is not at all suitable. > > Just stating what you don't want, and what you want, is not exactly a > constructive process. It's like saying: "I'm right, you all are > wrong." its not at all, if there is some way to achieve much the same thing using some other method please let me know. I don't want to force some solution everywhere. but i want the same solution to be in place for boards that want to have a generic linux distro be supported on it. I didn't take out the features we do not want because I understand that not everyone wants things to be the same, that other ways to do things is perfectly valid. > The thing is, that the overwhelming majority of systems are not > running a standard distro like Fedora, and don't have any such > features as boot extlinux.conf files or sysboot or whatever -they > don;t have it, and they cannot afford it because they have totally > different requirements to meet. Please try and keep this in mind. > Yourrequiremetns are but a special case here - one which we will try > to support in the best possible way, of course, but it's just one out > of many. and those systems are free to continue as they do today. they are likely systems where a generic linux distro just wont run even if you really try. Dennis _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot