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From: "Mark Chambers" <markc@mail.com>
To: <linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: bi_recs
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 08:09:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000b01c4aa0b$018aeae0$0301a8c0@chuck2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4160E898.9080905@intracom.gr


> 
> I just create an argv of all the environment variables of the firmware
> and I pass the psysical address of that NULL terminated argv array
> to the kernel command line like so... "u-boot-env=0x0f000f00".
> 

This would be a variation of the "human readable ASCII format"
technique, right?  I had once ventured to offer my opinion that this
would be a technique that could work for all architectures, which is
a big plus, IMO.   My mistake was suggesting XML, which I think
was [mis]understood by some as requiring a lot more than a few
extra "</" type characters.  I'm offering my opinion not as an expert
but as someone who not too long ago tried to puzzle through the
bootloader/kernel interface and found it unnecessarily obscure.  I
think an ASCIIZ string array of some sort would be immediately
obvious and thus highly maintainable by all.

Mark Chambers

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-04 12:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-30 23:02 bi_recs Jon Masters
2004-09-30 23:21 ` bi_recs Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-09-30 23:53   ` bi_recs Jon Masters
2004-10-01  3:11     ` bi_recs Kumar Gala
2004-10-01  3:40       ` bi_recs Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-01 11:14         ` bi_recs Jon Masters
2004-10-01 14:53           ` [PATCH] for linuxppc-2.4 tree: adds Memec 2VP7 / 2VP4 board support Andrei Konovalov
2004-10-01 21:54           ` bi_recs Jon Masters
2004-10-02  4:35             ` bi_recs Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-02 12:59               ` bi_recs Jon Masters
2004-10-01 22:06       ` bi_recs Tom Rini
2004-10-04  6:07         ` bi_recs Pantelis Antoniou
2004-10-04 12:09           ` Mark Chambers [this message]
2004-10-04 12:45           ` bi_recs Jon Masters
2004-10-04 16:43             ` bi_recs Dan Malek
2004-10-04 21:53               ` bi_recs Tom Rini
2004-10-04 20:20             ` bi_recs Wolfgang Denk
2004-10-04 14:29           ` bi_recs Tom Rini
2004-10-04 14:41             ` bi_recs Matt Porter
2004-10-04 15:00               ` bi_recs Kumar Gala
2004-10-04 15:06               ` bi_recs Jon Masters
2004-10-04 15:47                 ` bi_recs Kumar Gala
2004-10-04 20:18           ` bi_recs Wolfgang Denk

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