Re: Raspberry Pi update please.

[Nick Hudson <nick.hudson%gmx.co.uk@localhost>]

On Sunday 21 October 2012 15:37:25 Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
> 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.

I'm going to commit (soon) the firmware that allows arm/gpu memory split to be 
specified in config.txt and carry on using build system created kernel.img.

It'd be nice to have a BSD uboot replacement that did compressed/netboot, but 
it's not top priority for me.

Nick