Re: Raspberry Pi update please.

["Jonathan A. Kollasch" <jakllsch%kollasch.net@localhost>]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 04:42:52PM +0100, Nick Hudson wrote:
> 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.
> 

Just don't kill the ELF kernel image.  And don't depend on anything
other than the mailbox property interface and it doesn't matter what
loads the kernel.  My build of u-boot loads ELF images in addition to
uImages.

        Jonathan Kollasch