[fedora-arm] uboot update frequency

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Wed Feb 25 14:28:32 UTC 2015


>>> During the F21 development, it seemed that uboot was very stable. That is
>>> only occationally was an update rolled in.  This seems to be the case now
>>> in
>>> F22.
>>>
>>> The reason I am asking for clearification is that Hans told me that I can
>>> now boot from sata with only uboot on the SD card.  So I can take an old
>>> SD
>>> card, put uboot on it and only change that when a new uboot is rolled in.
>>> I
>>> would pick up a couple sata drives cheap on ebay (back in the fall, I got
>>> 5
>>> 80Gb drives for $10/each and free shipping), and dd the partitions to
>>> them
>>> for testing.
>>>
>>> If uboot is updated frequently with no announcement, that only means that
>>> I
>>> build a new uboot SD card with each sata drive image.  Just an extra
>>> step,
>>> but I would like to know about uboot updates.
>>
>> Watch the daily branched reports for F-22. If there's a new u-boot
>> there's a new u-boot, if there's not there's not!
>
>
> Would I be looking for uboot-tools?

Yes


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