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

From: Tolunay Orkun <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:55:13 -0500

Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <[email-masked]> you wrote:
>> The problem is that there are somethings that u-boot knows that needs  
>> to go into the blob (memory size, boot args, initrd info,  
>> frequencies, etc.)
> 
> Yes. Can we append auch variable data to the fixed part of the dts?
> 
>> How would we distinguish the bootm command that takes a blob versus  
>> the ones we have today?
> 
> Arg count. For example:
> 
> OLD:	bootm <kernel_addr>
>    or	bootm <kernel_addr> <ramdisk_addr>
> 
> NEW:	bootm <kernel_addr> - <dts_addr>
>    or	bootm <kernel_addr> <ramdisk_addr> <dts_addr>

How would you like to handle the case when dts is packed into 
multi-image file? Is bootm going to assume that the 3rd Image is dts?

Since dts is tightly coupled to kernel I would prefer something like:

bootm <kernel_addr>[:<dts_addr>] <ramdisk_addr>

Best regards,
Tolunay