[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Pass full u-boot environment to booting kernel

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

In message <4146DDA4.5070009@intracom.gr> you wrote:
>
> It's a discussion related to the kernel. Its mainly private email
> exchanges.

I really like this new trend in Free Software development :-(

The interesting public mailing lists (linuxppc) get  shut  down,  and
discussions  about  future  kernel  developments take place on IRC or
"private email exchanges" only.

If you don't happen do be chosen for such elitist circles you  cannot
participate in kernel development any more.

This is not my idea of how things should be done.


> The consensus is that there is no consensus for anything but the
> fact that something like this is needed.
> 
> The other solution discussed is bi_recs.

I will not comment on things I have no chance to get an opinion about.

> If you take a look at the patch you'll see that the environment is not
> passed in the command line.
> 
> Merely a memory structure in a non-overwrittable area is created and
> the (physical) address of it is passed to the kernel.

There is no kernel interface for such stuff in existing Linux kernels
(at least as far as they are accessable by mere  mortals).  There  is
not even a definition of "non-overwrittable area".


As long as there is no agreement how the  Linux  kernel  will  handle
these  issues  (and  with  "Linux  kernel"  I  mean  what  you get at
kernel.org, and what works at least on ARM, MIPS and  PowerPC)  I  do
not want to add this to U-Boot.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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