[fedora-arm] uboot update frequency

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 02/25/2015 09:28 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>>> 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
Great.  No good deals on sata drives on ebay today.  I do have one spare 
here to start testing with.

Got to think about how to cobble the install script to support this.  
Simple way is to mount both an SD card for uboot and the sata drive, 
provide both devices on the command line and just split the script as to 
what goes where.  And if the variable UBOOT is not provided, no SD card...