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u-boot-omap4 package

  1. Bug #613230
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 613230

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Ricardo Salveti (rsalveti) wrote : Re: u-boot fails to load new kernel fromm boot partition after kernel update

Currently we have two important u-boot trees, one for omap 4 and another for omap 3.

For omap 4 sakoman is improving and pushing the patches upstream already, and I saw that currently we have a very good support upstream (most of sakoman's patches were merged yesterday).

For omap 3 the best tree is still the beagleboard-validation one, at http://gitorious.org/beagleboard-validation/u-boot/. Probably in the future there's going to be some work trying to push the patches upstream, but currently I can't see anyone really focused on that.

So now the question now is which tree should we use for our images? The older u-boot, the one we currently use, is very very old (4 years), and probably every bug we find in the u-boot code base will be also a pain to fix.

As an example, this bug is very important, as it breaks every kernel update, and I can confirm that this doesn't happen with latest upstream u-boot code (hash 69a2a4d9a5884a6f2d04a551308980d452b9b349).