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.

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