User:Devos/UbootForARM

= U-Boot support for booting ARM systems =

Summary
Make it possible to update kernels and reboot into the newly installed kernel when U-Boot is the configured bootloader.

Owner

 * Name: Niels de Vos
 * Email: devos@fedoraproject.org or arm@lists.fedoraproject.org

Current status

 * Targeted release: N/A
 * Last updated: 27 May 2011
 * Percentage of completion: 0%

Detailed Description
There is currently no standardized way in Fedora to boot ARM systems that have the U-boot bootloader.

Benefit to Fedora
This is one of several parts that need improvement for making Fedora on ARM more usable.

Scope

 * use mkimage to convert a U-boot image for the kernel and initramfs
 * provide a U-boot script/template
 * update the template (plaintext) when a kernel in installed
 * fill variables in the template and create a plaintext U-boot script
 * integrate mkimage to convert the plaintext script into a binary script that gets loaded by U-boot
 * document guidelines on how to configure U-boot to load the binary script on different ARM systems

User Experience

 * 1) Fedora ARM will be more attractive for users, there will be less need for manual configuration.
 * 2) When there is

Comments and Discussion

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