> > But on the other hand, I've given up a long time ago trying to > enforce any > > kind of sane model on ppc32 because the embedded folks only care > about having > > a quick ugly broken hack to work with their board, thus the > explosion of > > various incompatible boot_info structures that we have nowadays. > > Yes indeed. It's ugly and needs fixing so I'll take a look at it - I > just don't want to do this if everyone here already knows of a better > solution which will work. > > Then Xilinx et al can generate memory maps and we can head towards > having a single kernel binary bootable on multiple different ppc > boards.
I would be nice to have an extensive and dynamic way to pass info from the bootloader to the kernel. I believe that Wolfgang has stated he would be willing to change u-boot to match. I'd be willing to fixup and move Freescale boards over to use something as long as we get u-boot to support it as well. I've been told that ARM has a solution, in place, to this problem that might always be worth looking at. - kumar
