U-Boot and kernel 2.6
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Fri Jun 11 23:03:04 EST 2004
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.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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