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Hi Wolfgang,
On Sun, 04 Aug 2013 22:00:04 +0200 Wolfgang Denk wd@denx.de wrote:
Dear Dennis,
In message 20130801120603.1683f7a6@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