EV-64260-BP & GT64260 bi_recs

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <20020319235815.GU3762 at opus.bloom.county> you wrote:
>
> > The systems I see shipping in the next 6 months or so will  be  based
> > on 2.4 kernel; I think we should define this feature rather sooner or
> > later to try it out and get it right.
>
> Yes, but the place to work on things isn't 2.4, it's 2.5.

OK. Then stop all efforts on 2.4 _now_ ???

> > The command line is pretty limited in leght, and there are many  more
> > "interesting"  things  you want to pass to proprietary drivers etc. I
> > rather had common stuff like this somewhere else...
>
> Yes, but the question isn't what we'd rather do, it's what we need to do
> for right now, and what we need to do for the future.  This does make
> sense for the future, but not for right now.

We are changing the interface from bd_info to bi_recs.

We had the baudrate in  bd_info,  and  nobody  complained.  I'm  just
asking  to preserve the current state with as minimal changes visible
to the user as possible.

It is _you_ who is trying to start some cleanup removing things  that
have "always" been there!


> Right NOW we have something which works for most of the problems.  What
> Mark is talking about would be adding in a few more defines to
> include/asm-ppc/bootinfo.h and using them.  Not sort-of implementing
> what's been talked about and then do something better later.

If we replace  bd_info  now,  we  should  keep  all  the  entries  it
provided, right?


Wolfgang Denk

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