Wolfgang Denk wrote: >In message <40C99182.8050201 at 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 ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
