On 03/17/2015 01:58 AM, Andrey Danin wrote:
On 16.03.2015 21:14, Stephen Warren wrote:
On 03/13/2015 04:49 PM, Andrey Danin wrote:
Signed-off-by: Andrey Danin danindrey@mail.ru
Some explanation of what these new options do might be nice; the features/benefits they enable.
Are any of the options generally useful? If so, should they be enabled in tegra-common*.h?
You also didn't Cc Tom Warren (Tegra maintainer) so he likely won't see the emails and hence won't apply this patch.
Thanks for the reply Stephen! I will add Tom Warren to Cc next time.
Bootmenu allows to create user friendly menu to choose different boot options. For example next 3 lines in boot config
setenv bootmenu_0 "Boot kernel = setenv bootargs ..." setenv bootmenu_1 "Boot recovery = setenv bootargs ..." bootmenu 20
will generate bootmenu with 3 options:
*** U-Boot Boot Menu ***
Boot kernel Boot recovery U-Boot console
Press UP/DOWN to move, ENTER to select
More information about bootmenu is available at doc/README.bootmenu
OK. Might it be better to use an extlinux.conf file? It already has support for displaying a menu for all the options in the file, and allowing the user to select which to boot. (Although I suspect the extlinux.conf menu could be prettied up some). I suppose your example above are more than just selecting which kernel to boot though, so perhaps extlinux.conf wouldn't work.
I was focused on console part for this RFC. This patch is for testing purposes. I will use tegra config instead of paz00 next time to allow other users of tegra devices to try changes.