Hacking Question How to get own Linux booteable

[bell07]

I am impressed what L4T Ubuntu does, but I like to get Gentoo booted on the console. But I did not fully understand the boot chain.

I know Hekate boots the coreboot.rom. The coreboot.rom contains the u-boot.elf compiled in. The u-boot.elf does have the CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND="run distro_bootcmd" setting. I miss the bridge from distro_bootcmd setting to "sd:/l4t-ubuntu/boot.scr" file.

My first try was just to copy the coreboot.rom to sd:/gentoo (with assumption same folder is automatically used), and setup own boot.scr and own kernel, but the l4t-ubuntu kernel/system was booted Seems the l4t path is hardcoded at any place I cannot find.

How I can get my Gentoo booted in easy way. I can compile coreboot, can compile the u-boot.elf and also the kernel, if needed.

 

[BlackTSQ]

@Gavin_Darkglider is working on a Gentoo Port, he posts updates in the L4T Ubuntu thread regulary

 

[bell07]

My early WIP you can see in https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8344766.html

@Gavin_Darkglider, how did you managed the coreboot / u-boot / Kernel things?

 

[Gavin_Darkglider]

Answered in PM. I think it would be smart to combine efforts on the repo, so we can get gentoo out faster.