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On May 24, 2012, at 3:40 AM, Damjan Marion wrote:

>=20
> On May 24, 2012, at 10:25 AM, Aleksandr Rybalko wrote:
>=20
>> 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)
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> Maybe we will have GENERIC arm kernel one day, but there is long =
road....

I'm working on that, at least for all Atmel kernels.  We'll have at =
least three kernels though: armv4 little endian, armv4 big endian and =
armv6 little endian.  Even for atmel, some of the id registers are such =
we may need multiple kernels.

Warner