Is anyone working on Barebox support for BeagleBone? And why u-boot is still the first bootloader, that will be implemented for new boards? Has Barebox some drawbacks compared to u-boot?
Yegor
Is anyone working on Barebox support for BeagleBone? And why u-boot is still the first bootloader, that will be implemented for new boards? Has Barebox some drawbacks compared to u-boot?
Yegor
Did you ever find your answer? I would like to know if there is a benefit to using Barebox as well…
What’s wrong with u-boot?
I didn’t say anything was wrong with it… I was just asking if Yegor found if there was a benefit to using Barebox over u-boot.
Somehow I didn’t receive answers to my question First of all some devs posted patches to support am335x, but it is still in review phase.
barebox uses Kconfig framework like Linux kernel, so instead of include/configs/boardx.h you get well known .config file with the options you need. I still haven’t used it for real projects but AFAIK barebox structure have more in common with Linux kernel that u-boot. That’s why it can easier to port drivers from Linux kernel to barebox. I’ll know more as soon as I get in touch with it.