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[Loïc Minier <lool@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011, James Westby wrote:
> I'm sending this proposal on behalf of Loïc, who has been drafting 
>   https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Specs/11.05/HardwarePacksV2

 Ah thanks  :-)

 I'd like to give a status update here on things which were pending
 discussion before work could start on the spec:
 * igep_uboot_ini field: currently we generate a boot.ini and not a
   boot.scr on IGEP boards; we need to confirm whether we could do
   without; I think what might be enough would be to include an u-boot
   defaulting to boot.scr and perhaps also a x-loader for IGEP on the
   boot partition
 * load_addr field: it's not clear whether we could use the same address
   for all boards; we need to confirm with someone from KWG
 * fdt field: I discussed this today with Grant Likely, and we agreed
   that kernel packages would distribute kernel .dtb files for each
   board under /lib/dtbs/`uname -r`/$board.dtb.  Grant will send an
   email out, it will take some time to reach our binary kernels as the
   ARM .dts sources are not in our kernel tree yet, and we need to
   update packaging etc.
 * I just added a kernel filename to the spec, I think I failed to readd
   this after dropping Android/ChromeOS from scope

 So I think it's almost ready to be scheduled, some research on IGEP and
 load_addr would be good as that would allow us to drop a couple of ugly
 concepts, but it shouldn't block this spec as both could be handled in
 other ways.

   Thanks!
-- 
Loïc Minier