From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EBCA2BDB4 for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 13:43:52 +1000 (EST) From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Kumar Gala In-Reply-To: <87127382-1357-11D9-8EFC-000393DBC2E8@freescale.com> References: <35fb2e59040930165327f2dd59@mail.gmail.com> <87127382-1357-11D9-8EFC-000393DBC2E8@freescale.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1096602008.14803.16.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 13:40:08 +1000 Cc: jonathan@jonmasters.org, linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: bi_recs List-Id: Linux on Embedded PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 13:11, Kumar Gala wrote: > > I would be nice to have an extensive and dynamic way to pass info from > the bootloader to the kernel. I believe that Wolfgang has stated he > would be willing to change u-boot to match. I'd be willing to fixup > and move Freescale boards over to use something as long as we get > u-boot to support it as well. > > I've been told that ARM has a solution, in place, to this problem that > might always be worth looking at. I'd rather see you guys sync with what I did on ppc64 and use that kind of OF device-tree, we already have all the code for using it and it would make the mecanism compatible with the prep/chrp/pmac kernel... But that's just a suggestion... Ben.