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On Apr 6, 2013, at 2:03 PM, Warner Losh wrote:

> Most boards have a perfectly good boot loader already, but
> some like the popular RPi don't.

Neither does the BeagleBone, Pandaboard, nor I suspect
many of the other "hobbyist" boards that people would really want
pre-built images for.

> Thankfully, the images for the boot loaders tend to be separable
> from the main image that people load on them and run/boot.

All of the boards mentioned above require a boot partition
and boot loader chain as part of the main image.

I believe this is common to most of the new hobbyist
boards.

Tim