Hello Stephan,
On 10-08-14 05:11, Stephen Warren wrote:
The entire point of this series is to prevent distros from having to install bootloader-specific boot configuration files.
I fail to see why this is something to pursue. Since the distro knows the boot path, why should u-boot be polling all possible options?
As such, relying exclusively on boot.scr wouldn't be useful.
Seems like a logical thing to me, as long as the scripts itself does not have to bother about board details, but is handed those info.
If we need to support other OSs, I think it'd be best to extend extlinux.conf to allow it to support booting OSs besides Linux.
It is not an OS issue.
FWIW, if extlinux.conf isn't found on the media, this patch does fall back to searching for boot.scr (a uImage of a U-Boot script) so it's certainly possible to make custom things happen if you want.
Yes, and the order is wrong in my mind. If anything, it should fallback to extlinux, but at least use a general boot.scr first. (or /boot/u-boot.conf or whatever)
Regards, Jeroen