Distro boot
Created by: jadonk
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. If folks have aligned on a way to boot distros from u-boot, why can't we use it? If it doesn't handle our use cases, then it probably needs to be augmented to support them. Always needing to patch mainline to boot our images stinks.
Describe the solution you'd like I want to be able to run mainline u-boot. We can still have some custom variations for ease-of-use specific to our community, but at least swapping out our u-boot with mainline u-boot should "just work".
Describe alternatives you've considered Not sure what alternatives there are to consider. We might lose some features, like add-on board overlays, but I'd like to see what we can do to resolve that. This is probably the biggest thing missing upstream. We probably need to tackle it with some actual u-boot code and not just u-boot script.
Additional context This is also about running other distro images and seeing capes supported in other distros.
I'm not sure who is best to tackle this problem. Perhaps this could be a challenge for Major League Hackers?