CPCI-405 port (PPC405GP)
Tom Rini
trini at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Sep 21 02:07:33 EST 2001
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 11:57:34AM -0400, Josh Huber wrote:
> 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)
But the bi_recs in 2.5 won't look like 2.4.current.
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