U-Boot and kernel 2.6

[Wolfgang Denk]

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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