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Re: Raspberry Pi update please.



On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 03:34:46PM +0100, Nick Hudson wrote:
> On Sunday 21 October 2012 09:11:20 Matt Thomas wrote:
> > On Oct 20, 2012, at 9:16 PM, Jun Ebihara wrote:
> [...]
> > > # cu -115200 -l /dev/dtyU0
> > > Connected
> > > 
> > > U-Boot 2012.04.01-00489-gcd2dac2-dirty (Jul 07 2012 - 12:57:03)
> > > 
> [...]
> > 
> > If you have u-boot, why not use a ubootimage?
> 
> Maybe someone can explain the value in uboot. kernel.img created during RPI 
> kernel build seems good enough for me.

U-Boot lets you netboot test kernels. This saves a lot of wear on the SD
socket.

        Jonathan Kollasch


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