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

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Apr 28 05:42:34 EST 2006


[snip]

> A thought that keeps recurring (but I've suppressed because I don't  
> have time to play...) is that it would be Really Cool[tm] to store  
> the u-boot env variables in a flat tree and then pass the env/tree  
> to linux.  It also sounds like a major change & disruption to u- 
> boot :-(.  I haven't looked at what it would do to code size either.

I believe this is already supported in u-boot as a config option.   
You can also pass the bd_t to the kernel via the flat dev tree if you  
want.

- kumar



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