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Re: Symbolic links to kernel image files and initial RAM file system image files



On Sat, 2011-07-23 at 18:57 +0200, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:57:03 +0200, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
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> > Why would the user have to do that?  Your hook script can do it.
> 
> I'm completely lost.  How can a hook script update u-boot's path
> definitions?  

By writing to whichever flash partition they're in.

> Unlike with EFI firmware where we have efibootmgr, I'm not aware of a
> tool that runs in Linux userspace that has the ability to manipulate
> u-boot's idea of the paths to the desired default kernel and initrd
> images.

Is that because, as with everything on ARM, it's done differently on
each board?  How do users set these variables in the first place?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Absolutum obsoletum. (If it works, it's out of date.) - Stafford Beer

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