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diff --git a/libre-testing/uboot4extlinux-sunxi/TODO.txt b/libre-testing/uboot4extlinux-sunxi/TODO.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1d8e08c63 --- /dev/null +++ b/libre-testing/uboot4extlinux-sunxi/TODO.txt @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ ++------+ +| TODO | ++------+ +- We could add automatic updates. It would require a bit of + work: + - u-boot has code to detect images. We could write a tool that + reuses that code to detect Allwinner eGON images. + See the 0001-Add-tool-to-dump-sunxi-images.patch for inspiration + on how to do that. + - Once done that tool could then be leveraged for detecting + u-boot installations and updating the u-boot images with a + pacman hook for devices that are booted. + - We could also check the devicetree to make sure we are + running on the right device. + - For chroots we could somehow detect that we are in a chroot + and find if there is an underlying block device, and upgrade + u-boot there. + - In any case we need to be careful not to break other computers: + some x86 laptops have eMMC too, and most of the time theses + eMMC also contains the BIOS and/or UEFI, so we don't want to + erase that. We also don't want to erase the laptop filesytems + either. +- We need to build some infrastructure for users to report working + boards and mention it here and on the wiki for adding official + support for boards. We could for instance do something as simple + as possible like open a new bug tracker specially for that and + just reference that in the wiki for instance. +- We also need to make dtb fragment work in u-boot to support more + use cases and possibly also package popular dtb fragment for the + beaglebone black. +- In addition we could then leverage that to build an image for + the beaglebone black (or other boards) for flashing Libreboot. + This way Libreboot would benefit from an FSDG compatible image + that is also maintained by an upstream distribution. +- We could also look maing an u-boot package that has UEFI compatibility + and also bundle GRUB with it. This way we could simplify the installation + instructions by leverage users knowledge about GRUB and also potentially + investigate if we could leverage the UEFI standard for easily upgrading + that u-boot+UEFI+grub image. |