[U-Boot-Users] Re: FT u-boot shim

Tolunay Orkun
2006-04-27T21:55:13Z

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