From: Josh Huber <huber@alum.wpi.edu>
To: Dan Malek <dan@mvista.com>
Cc: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>,
Stefan Roese <stefan.roese@esd-electronics.com>,
Linuxppc-Embedded <linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org>,
Linuxppc-Commit <linuxppc-commit@source.mvista.com>
Subject: Re: CPCI-405 port (PPC405GP)
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 11:57:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sndhyhw1.fsf@mclinux.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BAA0DCC.122CE6CB@mvista.com> (Dan Malek's message of "Thu, 20 Sep 2001 11:39:56 -0400")
Dan Malek <dan@mvista.com> writes:
> Why are you doing this? Why can't you just use a standard zImage
> format and bootloader like all other systems use? It just seems to
> me you are coding yourselves deeper into a hole where every little
> kernel interface change means a new boot rom.
Well, I was under the impression that the whole point of using bi_recs
was to avoid changes in the future. Isn't that the point? (a
consistant interface that's forward/backward compatible)
> I would suggest just creating a standard interface to calling an
> image and passing information. Create a function in the
> embed_config.c to parse it, and call it a day......
It seems to me like a cleaner solution to have the bootloader
uncompress and pass information to the kernel directly...
--
Josh Huber
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-20 15:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <EFEAIMDCOOOHIEPHDNFJEEENDCAA.stefan.roese@esd-electronics.com>
2001-09-10 17:13 ` CPCI-405 port (PPC405GP) Dan Malek
2001-09-11 7:15 ` AW: " Stefan Roese
2001-09-11 17:36 ` Matthew Locke
2001-09-11 17:53 ` Dan Malek
2001-09-12 13:12 ` AW: " Stefan Roese
2001-09-18 18:57 ` Tom Rini
2001-09-19 13:46 ` Stefan Roese
2001-09-19 14:17 ` Tom Rini
2001-09-19 15:55 ` AW: " Stefan Roese
2001-09-19 18:10 ` Dan Malek
2001-09-19 22:57 ` Tom Rini
2001-09-19 23:02 ` Dan Malek
2001-09-19 23:31 ` Tom Rini
2001-09-20 4:12 ` Dan Malek
2001-09-20 9:20 ` Stefan Roese
2001-09-20 15:20 ` Dan Malek
2001-09-20 15:46 ` Tom Rini
2001-09-20 21:43 ` Dan Malek
2001-09-20 21:56 ` Tom Rini
2001-09-21 7:04 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-09-21 13:55 ` Tom Rini
2001-09-23 18:01 ` Wolfgang Denk
[not found] ` <3BAEB9DA.232C8FEB@mvista.com>
2001-09-29 15:34 ` Dan Malek
2001-09-20 14:55 ` Tom Rini
2001-09-20 15:34 ` Dan Malek
2001-09-20 15:51 ` Tom Rini
2001-09-20 16:10 ` Mark Hatle
2001-09-20 21:38 ` Dan Malek
2001-09-23 18:01 ` Wolfgang Denk
2001-09-23 20:54 ` Tom Rini
2001-09-20 14:59 ` Josh Huber
2001-09-20 15:39 ` Dan Malek
2001-09-20 15:57 ` Josh Huber [this message]
2001-09-20 16:07 ` Tom Rini
2001-09-20 16:32 ` Josh Huber
2001-09-20 16:35 ` Tom Rini
2001-09-23 18:00 ` Wolfgang Denk
2001-09-23 20:50 ` Tom Rini
2001-09-24 4:04 ` Dan Malek
2001-09-23 18:00 ` Wolfgang Denk
2001-09-20 8:00 ` Stefan Roese
2001-09-19 14:32 ` Stefan Roese
[not found] <3BAEB761.194CE057@mvista.com>
2001-09-29 7:53 ` Wolfgang Denk
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