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State of ARM port
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Andrei Borzenkov |
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State of ARM port |
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Sun, 29 Nov 2015 10:43:54 +0300 |
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It seems that distributions tend to focus on native U-Boot support for
extlinux-like configuration and direct loading of Linux kernel/FDT.
Recently it came up for openSUSE, reasons were named
1. upstream U-Boot prefers extlinux for loading, CONFIG_API is
considered edge case, deprecated. They do not consider GRUB valid reason
to maintain it :)
2. GRUB requires patching for each board to set valid link address
3. some general issues on specific boards
1 requires active commitment from U-Boot community, apparently it is
lacking. To properly fix 2 we need relocation support in U-Boot; which
again returns us to "GRUB not being interesting to U-Boot community" :)
3 depends on motivation to debug and fix issues; as long as GRUB is not
considered there is none.
So what should we do with this port?
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