From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Tom Rini Cc: "Mark A. Greer" , linux-galileo@source.mvista.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: EV-64260-BP & GT64260 bi_recs From: Wolfgang Denk Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 19 Mar 2002 16:58:15 MST." <20020319235815.GU3762@opus.bloom.county> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 01:24:27 +0100 Message-Id: <20020320002432.336DD109F3@denx.denx.de> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: In message <20020319235815.GU3762@opus.bloom.county> you wrote: > > > The systems I see shipping in the next 6 months or so will be based > > on 2.4 kernel; I think we should define this feature rather sooner or > > later to try it out and get it right. > > Yes, but the place to work on things isn't 2.4, it's 2.5. OK. Then stop all efforts on 2.4 _now_ ??? > > The command line is pretty limited in leght, and there are many more > > "interesting" things you want to pass to proprietary drivers etc. I > > rather had common stuff like this somewhere else... > > Yes, but the question isn't what we'd rather do, it's what we need to do > for right now, and what we need to do for the future. This does make > sense for the future, but not for right now. We are changing the interface from bd_info to bi_recs. We had the baudrate in bd_info, and nobody complained. I'm just asking to preserve the current state with as minimal changes visible to the user as possible. It is _you_ who is trying to start some cleanup removing things that have "always" been there! > Right NOW we have something which works for most of the problems. What > Mark is talking about would be adding in a few more defines to > include/asm-ppc/bootinfo.h and using them. Not sort-of implementing > what's been talked about and then do something better later. If we replace bd_info now, we should keep all the entries it provided, right? Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd@denx.de I used to be indecisive, now I'm not sure. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/