Dan Malek <dan at mvista.com> writes: > Why are you doing this? Why can't you just use a standard zImage > format and bootloader like all other systems use? It just seems to > me you are coding yourselves deeper into a hole where every little > kernel interface change means a new boot rom.
Well, I was under the impression that the whole point of using bi_recs was to avoid changes in the future. Isn't that the point? (a consistant interface that's forward/backward compatible) > I would suggest just creating a standard interface to calling an > image and passing information. Create a function in the > embed_config.c to parse it, and call it a day...... It seems to me like a cleaner solution to have the bootloader uncompress and pass information to the kernel directly... -- Josh Huber ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
