Comment 11 for bug 671027

flash-kernel doesn't support seperate partitions by any design except to put this in board-specific code. It's not global, it's duplicated every time it's needed (and in this case it seems only on boards that can only boot from vfat). We don't feel we need to support it. In any case if the patch is accepted, great, let's run with that.

Why does official support for Ubuntu require that we package a bootloader binary? This makes absolutely no sense at all. Does Dell ship you BIOS binaries for their laptops so you can make it official? Does HP? I have a real problem of having source code for source code's sake. We do not support whatsoever building U-Boot and flashing it yourself with a custom build as it complicates board support, and I really don't think Canonical wants to take on this user support process on our behalf. It is simply unneeded.

We will support u-boot updates simply by shipping a binary and a boot.scr which can be copied to an SD card. Source code will be in a git repo or hosted at PowerDeveloper. I will definitely feel attacked if Ubuntu's policy is to allow users to generate spurious support requests targeted at Genesi from people building U-Boot with various compiler versions, various distribution versions, various user-supplied patches and then finding something breaks for them.