From: Tolunay Orkun <listmember@orkun.us>
To: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Cc: "linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org list" <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
U-Boot Users <u-boot-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] Re: FT u-boot shim
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:55:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44513DC1.8040608@orkun.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060427194055.3EED1353A57@atlas.denx.de>
Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <D358E665-60E4-48C0-82FD-7A1C16DAF00C@kernel.crashing.org> you wrote:
>> The problem is that there are somethings that u-boot knows that needs
>> to go into the blob (memory size, boot args, initrd info,
>> frequencies, etc.)
>
> Yes. Can we append auch variable data to the fixed part of the dts?
>
>> How would we distinguish the bootm command that takes a blob versus
>> the ones we have today?
>
> Arg count. For example:
>
> OLD: bootm <kernel_addr>
> or bootm <kernel_addr> <ramdisk_addr>
>
> NEW: bootm <kernel_addr> - <dts_addr>
> or bootm <kernel_addr> <ramdisk_addr> <dts_addr>
How would you like to handle the case when dts is packed into
multi-image file? Is bootm going to assume that the 3rd Image is dts?
Since dts is tightly coupled to kernel I would prefer something like:
bootm <kernel_addr>[:<dts_addr>] <ramdisk_addr>
Best regards,
Tolunay
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-27 22:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-24 17:41 85xx FDT updates? Jon Loeliger
2006-04-24 19:04 ` Vitaly Bordug
2006-04-24 21:43 ` Kumar Gala
2006-04-24 22:31 ` Dan Malek
2006-04-25 6:08 ` Kumar Gala
2006-04-25 7:49 ` Eugene Surovegin
2006-04-25 14:05 ` Kumar Gala
2006-04-25 16:12 ` Eugene Surovegin
2006-04-25 16:25 ` Kumar Gala
2006-04-25 16:31 ` Eugene Surovegin
2006-04-25 16:51 ` Kumar Gala
2006-04-25 21:16 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-04-25 21:19 ` Kumar Gala
2006-04-25 21:34 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-04-25 16:49 ` Dan Malek
2006-04-25 16:55 ` Kumar Gala
2006-04-25 17:08 ` Eugene Surovegin
2006-04-25 17:39 ` Kumar Gala
2006-04-25 18:01 ` Eugene Surovegin
2006-04-25 18:14 ` Kumar Gala
2006-04-25 18:24 ` Eugene Surovegin
2006-04-25 18:29 ` Brent Cook
2006-04-25 18:33 ` Kumar Gala
2006-04-25 18:53 ` Eugene Surovegin
2006-04-25 19:20 ` Kumar Gala
2006-04-25 19:31 ` Eugene Surovegin
2006-04-25 19:41 ` Kumar Gala
2006-04-25 20:00 ` FT u-boot shim Kumar Gala
2006-04-25 21:30 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-04-25 21:33 ` Kumar Gala
2006-04-25 21:39 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-04-25 21:42 ` Kumar Gala
2006-04-25 22:28 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-04-26 14:37 ` Kumar Gala
2006-04-26 19:19 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-04-26 19:46 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-04-27 18:18 ` Kumar Gala
2006-04-27 19:05 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-04-27 19:20 ` Kumar Gala
2006-04-27 19:33 ` Jerry Van Baren
2006-04-27 19:42 ` [U-Boot-Users] " Kumar Gala
2006-04-27 19:43 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-04-27 20:40 ` Jerry Van Baren
2006-04-27 21:25 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2006-04-27 19:40 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-04-27 19:46 ` Kumar Gala
2006-04-27 19:59 ` Kumar Gala
2006-04-27 21:36 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-04-27 21:55 ` Tolunay Orkun [this message]
2006-04-25 21:33 ` Mark A. Greer
2006-04-25 21:38 ` Eugene Surovegin
2006-04-28 11:28 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-04-28 16:01 ` Kumar Gala
2006-04-28 19:11 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-04-28 19:44 ` Tom Rini
2006-04-28 23:07 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-04-28 23:22 ` Tom Rini
2006-04-29 0:32 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-04-29 0:52 ` Tom Rini
2006-04-29 8:37 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-04-29 15:33 ` Kumar Gala
2006-04-28 23:35 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-04-28 23:55 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-04-28 19:52 ` Tom Rini
2006-04-25 18:48 ` 85xx FDT updates? Eugene Surovegin
2006-04-25 19:14 ` Andy Fleming
2006-04-25 19:22 ` Kumar Gala
2006-04-25 19:27 ` Eugene Surovegin
2006-04-25 19:58 ` Andy Fleming
2006-04-25 20:04 ` Eugene Surovegin
2006-04-25 21:29 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-04-25 21:25 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-04-25 18:31 ` Kumar Gala
2006-04-25 21:24 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-04-25 21:32 ` Kumar Gala
2006-04-25 21:38 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-04-25 21:22 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-04-25 21:29 ` Kumar Gala
2006-04-25 21:36 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-04-25 21:38 ` Kumar Gala
2006-04-25 22:22 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-04-26 23:27 ` Dan Malek
2006-04-25 21:09 ` Wolfgang Denk
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