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by BuuQu9hu 3448 days ago
It would be nice to add RPi support to the u-boot bootloader.
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christina_b 3448 days ago
We have considered it, however, because there's still a need for a firmware, the first stage bootloader and the firmware itself are using a common driver framework, it just makes things easier. Besides, the firmware will later run an RTOS (for example LittleKernel) and Uboot doesn't provide RTOS-like services.
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floatboth 3448 days ago
Would be nice to chainload U-Boot from your firmware/loader though, because FreeBSD boots via U-Boot.
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suihkulokki 3448 days ago
U-boot already does support it: http://elinux.org/RPi_U-Boot

I think what is wanted is chainloading u-boot from the blobless firmware.

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mschuster91 3448 days ago
Oh, thanks for reminding me, I had totally forgotten to care about my u-boot fork for...what? years? It's still on the wiki page, though...
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