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From: Kenneth Johansson <ken@switchboard.ericsson.se>
To: Mark Chambers <markc@mail.com>
Cc: "linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org"
	<linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: U-Boot and kernel 2.6
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 18:48:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1086972539.4640.65.camel@spawn.uab.ericsson.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002a01c44fc9$201dc820$0301a8c0@chuck2>


On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 17:31, Mark Chambers wrote:
> > > Yeah, having the bi_recs interface actually working
> > > would be ideal, but at the present time nothing is
> > > working and as AFAIK no-one is working on it.
> >
> > So we should offer some gentle encouragement. Like refusing to accept
> > any further modifications to include/asm-ppc/ppcboot.h.
> >
>
> Here's another idea - how about XML?  That would be two steps forward, IMO,
> instead of just going from one magic structure to another.

Well XML of all things must be magic considering that it automatically
solves all problems all the time.

> As to just trashing bd_t, does that mean users have to upgrade their
> bootloader to use newer kernels, and could not switch back easily if
> problems arose?  Perhaps the kernel could identify whether the pointer is to
> a bd_t or something else and handle it automatically?

Don't worry this will never change the problem is not creating a big
enough itch so nobody will do anything (again).


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-06-11 16:48 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
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 [this message]
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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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