u-boot instructions are not ones that should be used

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interesting stuff about arm devices (Utilite, SolidRun, Odroid)

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u-boot instructions are not ones that should be used #18

Closed ausil closed 8 years ago

ausil commented 8 years ago

In regards to https://github.com/umiddelb/armhf/wiki/Get-more-out-of-%22Das-U-Boot%22

Please read http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=doc/README.distro;h=3715c8c3bad7339c41a9da7e1f11fd6d4f902a08;hb=HEAD there is a defined way to setup u-boot to ensure that distros can simply support hardware. The instructions you have are not at all close to meeting the specification.

umiddelb commented 8 years ago

thank you for pointing me to this documentation.

Honestly I wasn't aware that u-boot offers these kinds of facilities (e.g. a boot menu), because most of the implementations I (have to) use have skipped this options. I've started my own solution to harmonize different u-boot usages/implementations across the devices I have. You may take a look here. And I will start to re-factor the variable naming in order to be more compliant.

ausil commented 8 years ago

Happy to send you a patch that converts you to using distro boot defaults. it will mean fedora and Debian at the least will just work

umiddelb commented 8 years ago

OK, I'd be happy to have a look at their design documents as well (giving some reasoning), if there are any. IMHO each SoC/Board Vendor invents its own way how to utilize u-boot, which is very annoying.