Stefan Reinauer wrote:
I suggest that coreboot designers look at how U-Boot is designed,
I understand that at least previous versions of U-Boot were not so nice to look at.
I did discuss with Denx about running the non-hardware-specific part of U-Boot as a payload. They were not uninterested.
There is a new, Denx-independent branch of u-boot from Pengutronix which we've been using on custom ARM based hardware: u-boot v2.
It has a few less features, but a considerably nicer design. And, the Pengutronix folks seemed very interested to see it happen as a coreboot payload.
Yes, I've talked a lot with Wolfgang about coreboot, at several events. Maybe it was even Pengutronix people rather than Denx people I had a chat with at embeddedworld? Hmm. :)
I think this would be a real improvement for both projects, coreboot (nice and slim, standardized user interface, could replace FILO) as well as u-boot (access to the x86 world without re-implementing the wheel).
Agree.
I had this on my TODO, but there's been too much other stuff so far. Yet I would love to see this happen. Maybe we get the momentum together?
So many things TODO.. :\
What does u-boot v2 need from coreboot?
//Peter