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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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  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
  -- 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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