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

[Michael Stapelberg]

Yeah, I read about that elsewhere as well, but couldn’t get it to work back
then. I wanted to play it safe when getting things to work, so I decided to
go with the most travelled route with regards to boot loaders. If it turns
out that using u-boot is generally a better choice, we can definitely
revisit how we do things.

On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 10:37 PM, Dominik George <nik at naturalnet.de> wrote:

> > 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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Best regards,
Michael
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