[Pkg-raspi-maintainers] Side note on copying boot files (was: Re: Device tree incomplete?)

Dominik George nik at naturalnet.de
Sun Feb 12 21:37:28 UTC 2017


> Given that we literally just copy the file (see

Oh, btw… looking at the openSUSE image, I found out they use a neat
trick: They chainload u-boot from the RPi bootloader, and then let it
boot Linux, because it can read more filesystems and they actually don't
need to copy stuff around. (Well, they do need to copy u-boot around, so…)

-nik

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