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[James Westby <james.westby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the summary. I think that it is a pretty well defined scope,
so we can go ahead without definite answers to those questions, as long
as there is agreement to answer them soon :-)

Thanks,

James


On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:47:51 +0100, Loïc Minier <lool@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
> 
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