From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Denk Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 21:18:35 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/6] P1021: add P1021MDS board support In-Reply-To: <20110131140801.33609642@udp111988uds.am.freescale.net> References: <1296499317-26616-1-git-send-email-Haiying.Wang@freescale.com> <1296499317-26616-4-git-send-email-Haiying.Wang@freescale.com> <20110131200317.A730ED4D67C@gemini.denx.de> <20110131140801.33609642@udp111988uds.am.freescale.net> Message-ID: <20110131201835.B0727D4D67C@gemini.denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Dear Scott Wood, In message <20110131140801.33609642@udp111988uds.am.freescale.net> you wrote: > > > Please rather omit the setting instead of using fillers that are of no > > practical value. > > Well, they do make it easier for a user to quickly see what the names > are that U-Boot expects for such commonly used things, rather than > having to scan the manual. I doubt both the "quicly see" part (in such a long list of settings) and the "rather than having to scan the manual" part. > > > + "ramdiskfile=your.ramdisk.u-boot\0" \ > > > > Ditto. [BTW: why "....ramdisk.u-boot"? U-Boot does not use ramdisks. > > The ramdisk is only used for some OS, so that should probably be > > "...ramdisk.linux" instead?] > > We often use the ".u-boot" suffix on ramdisks that have been wrapped > with a uImage header. That would be a "uRamdisk" then (similar to uImage). Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. - Mark Twain