On 7/3/07, Grant Likely grant.likely@secretlab.ca wrote:
On 7/3/07, Andrew Dyer amdyer@gmail.com wrote:
I would like to see the 'second stage' of u-boot be made more modular. I imagine a set of basic code (console, environment, loader, storage driver) would get loaded first and additional commands and drivers could be stored as compressed uImages and loaded as needed and chained onto the list of valid commands/functions. This shouldn't be allowed to get too out of hand (no automatic dependency resolution, autoloading, or anything like that :-)
Doesn't this already kind of exist in the form of u-boot applications?
Yes, but I'm proposing that more of the /u-boot/ functionality be made application-like so things that get used only occasionally don't have to be in the main boot flash.