From: Pantelis Antoniou <panto@intracom.gr>
To: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Meriin Michael-BMM063 <Meriin@motorola.com>,
"'Ricardo DIz'" <rdiz@alumni.deec.uc.pt>,
linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: U-Boot and kernel 2.6
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 16:23:21 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40C9B249.4070905@intracom.gr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040611130309.6E605C109F@atlas.denx.de>
Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>In message <40C99182.8050201@intracom.gr> you wrote:
>
>[David Woodhouse:]
>
>
>>>We really need to throw this crap away and start using structured tags
>>>like ARM does.
>>>
>
>Right (or bi_rec's or whatever this might end up being called).
>
>
>>Or we can parse the u-boot environment which is ascii.
>>I already do this...
>>
>
>No, this is IMHO not a good idea. Some of the information that needs
>to be passed to the kernel is not contained in the envrionment, and
>does not belong there.
>
I'm just talking about augmenting the information provided by bd_t.
And it's not just things that the kernel needs, it can be used to
pass information to the user-space applications.
Reading the environment from flash is not correct because the
variables might be modified by the boot sequence but not commited.
When I get some breathing time, I'll sent you the patch.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Wolfgang Denk
>
>
Regards
Pantelis
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-11 13:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-10 6:45 U-Boot and kernel 2.6 Meriin Michael-BMM063
2004-06-11 10:36 ` David Woodhouse
2004-06-11 11:03 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2004-06-11 11:20 ` David Woodhouse
2004-06-11 13:03 ` Wolfgang Denk
2004-06-11 13:23 ` Pantelis Antoniou [this message]
2004-06-11 14:09 ` Wolfgang Denk
[not found] ` <40C9BED6.3010809@intracom.gr>
2004-06-11 14:34 ` David Woodhouse
2004-06-11 15:11 ` Wolfgang Denk
2004-06-11 17:17 ` Greg Goodwin
2004-06-11 15:31 ` Mark Chambers
2004-06-11 16:22 ` Wolfgang Denk
2004-06-11 16:48 ` Kenneth Johansson
2004-06-11 14:43 ` Wolfgang Denk
2004-06-11 21:35 ` Mark A. Greer
2004-06-11 23:18 ` Mark Chambers
2004-06-11 23:27 ` Mark A. Greer
2004-06-12 2:12 ` Kumar Gala
2004-06-11 16:48 ` Tom Rini
[not found] ` <0F48024310E5D6118D200002B3A440DB08B07A3D@zil01exm08.mcil.comm.mot.com >
2004-06-11 19:27 ` Ricardo DIz
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2004-06-09 17:47 Ricardo DIz
2006-08-01 5:12 ` Dmitry Chichkov
2006-08-01 7:10 ` Wolfgang Denk
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