wip v2 u-boot support

[Danny Milosavljevic]

Whoops, now with the correct u-boot.scm

On Mon, 5 Sep 2016 21:58:03 +0200
Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi David,
> 
> I thought I'd post a minimal version for U-Boot support without any renames 
> that aren't absolutely necessary. In this way, the patch is quite small.
> 
> I think I also figured out how to pass the name of the bootloader 
> installation executable - that's also included.
> 
> Let's see whether it works.
> 
> See attachement...
> 
> I assume that gnu/system/u-boot.scm already exists.
> 
> If it doesn't, I've also attached the latest version of it.
> 
> As you can see it's no big deal.
> 
> Note that the only reasons <u-boot-configuration> is distinct from 
> <grub-configuration> are:
> - The field "board" which contains the board name is necessary in 
> <u-boot-configuration> but not <grub-configuration>.
> - The system config's "operating-system" definition contains a "bootloader" 
> field that is actually a bootloader-configuration (rather than the actual 
> bootloader package or similar). Hence there would be no way to find out which 
> bootloader to install if the configuration wasn't a different data structure.
> 
> I'm not sure those are good enough reasons to justify distinguishing them.
> 
> It would also be possible to change the system config to something like
> 
> (operating-system
>   (bootloader grub (bootloader-configuration ...)))
> 
> and
> 
> (operating-system
>   (bootloader (make-u-boot-package "my_great_system") 
> (bootloader-configuration ...)))
> 
> and then drop "board". In that case, <u-boot-configuration> would be the same 
> as <grub-configuration> - but grub-configuration supports theming which 
> u-boot-configuration doesn't. We could just ignore the theme parts in that 
> case, though.

u-boot.scm
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wip-uboot-support.patch
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