21 Feb
2013
21 Feb
'13
8:57 p.m.
Dear Stephen,
In message 5126778A.4040705@wwwdotorg.org you wrote:
If U-Boot always searched a disk for e.g. /boot/boot.scr or similar and just executed that, and there was a standard boot.scr that worked on all boards by use of e.g. bootz, ${soc}, ${board}, then that could be distro-agnostic too. And life would be simple, without the need for any extra build tools at all.
If the world was so simple, we could eventually do that. But it ain't so. Just consider the typical "diskless" system that boots over the network, using DHCP + TFTP, where the server will provide a single file only. Or systems that require sub-second boot times, where you don't want to spend time in running boot scripts. etc.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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