barebox at ELCE

[Sascha Hauer]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 12:49:41PM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> On 11:54 Wed 10 Oct     , Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:41:23AM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> > > On 08:46 Wed 10 Oct     , Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > > > Hi All,
> > > > 
> > > > As you might have noticed already there is a barebox presentation at the
> > > > ELCE this year in Barcelona. For everyone who is able to come I'd be
> > > > happy to see and meet you there.
> > > > I will talk about the current barebox status and the future directions
> > > > for barebox.
> > > for the future direction I thik we could discus about it here first
> > 
> > Well those who have seen the patches I was recently working on won't be
> > surprised: It goes into the direction of a multiplatform bootloader.
> can we add dt probe will full dt support (maybe drop the boards
> 
> I'll to add multi boards support too specially usefull as a second stage. As
> example we could detect the board type in the pbl and let barebox select the
> correct one, also if a first stage oottloader exist it can pass the
> infotmation.
> 
> I was thinking on arm in the same way as the kernel

That's exactly what I am working on.

Sascha

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