[Arm-netbook] Make A10 boot-able image tool

[Justin Cormack]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:50 PM, lkcl luke <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Tom Cubie <mr.hipboi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Yes, the work is on b) and i am working on it.
>
>  great stuff.
>
> > We already have a) and c).
> > I have a question, is b) and c) one binary file or two. I mean is u-boo
> spl
> > is
> > part of the u-boot.bin or we then have u-boot.bin and u-boot-spl.bin.
>
>  tom, u-boot is... basically... an abomination that would be best if
> it had never existed.  it is a dog's dinner mixture of bits of libc,
> application-space code and random snippets of out-of-date linux kernel
> source code.  it even requires special versions of the gcc compiler
> that are spec'd to not link with the standard c runtime.
>
>
Agreed about uboot. Just run Linux.

In the boot process on the wiki, what is the point of the boot.axf step?
Could we just run Linux from boot1? (or even boot0?).

Justin
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