[Bug 1794841] Re: flash-kernel still using u-boot for Raspberry Pi

[Dave Jones]

Sorry, we'll be sticking with u-boot for the foreseeable future. Partly
this is because it keeps things (somewhat) consistent between the core
and classic images, but also keeps things consistent between RPi and
Ubuntu images for other embedded platforms. Were we to remove u-boot
from the RPi images, it would make them a special case among all such
images (it's also worth noting we may start inheriting u-boot
configuration from Debian upstream in future; Debian also uses u-boot
although we currently override their configuration for RPi).

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Title:
  flash-kernel still using u-boot for Raspberry Pi

Status in flash-kernel package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The Raspberry Pi firmware can boot a Linux kernel perfectly fine with
  these settings in config.txt:

  kernel=vmlinuz
  initramfs initrd.img followkernel

  (Note that the space between "initramfs" and "initrd.img" is
  intentional!)

  So there's no actual need to use u-boot anymore. Also, at the moment,
  there's bug #1791466 with u-boot on the Raspberry Pi 3.

  Removing the u-boot bootloader and boot scripts would clean things up
  a lot. Also removing that shouldn't have any effect on existing
  installations because the boot script doesn't change anyways.

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