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Date:      Thu, 24 May 2012 11:40:19 +0200
From:      Damjan Marion <dmarion@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Aleksandr Rybalko <ray@dlink.ua>
Cc:        arm@freebsd.org, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current FreeBSD <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Customizing ubldr build...
Message-ID:  <8E4F983B-75F7-45DB-A92E-E66C721896E5@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120524112546.bdef0c3c.ray@dlink.ua>
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On May 24, 2012, at 10:25 AM, Aleksandr Rybalko wrote:

> On Thu, 24 May 2012 10:16:42 +0200
> Damjan Marion <dmarion@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>=20
>>>=20
>>> On May 24, 2012, at 6:35 AM, Tim Kientzle wrote:
>>>=20
>>>> I think the PandaBoard ES is fully supported by U-Boot,
>>>> so it should be possible to use ubldr as part of the boot
>>>> chain for that just like I've been doing with BeagleBone.
>>>=20
>>> What are the benefits of using ubldr compared to what we are doing
>>> today(load; go)?
>=20
> Preload modules for example. (if it accessible of course)

I was looking into this few months ago but I didn't found a value in =
doing
this in embedded world where we already have custom kernel for each =
SoC/board.

Maybe we will have GENERIC arm kernel one day, but there is long =
road....

Damjan=



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