From: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale•com>
To: <jonathan@jonmasters•org>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: bi_recs
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 22:11:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87127382-1357-11D9-8EFC-000393DBC2E8@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <35fb2e59040930165327f2dd59@mail.gmail.com>
> > But on the other hand, I've given up a long time ago trying to
> enforce any
> > kind of sane model on ppc32 because the embedded folks only care
> about having
> > a quick ugly broken hack to work with their board, thus the
> explosion of
> > various incompatible boot_info structures that we have nowadays.
>
> Yes indeed. It's ugly and needs fixing so I'll take a look at it - I
> just don't want to do this if everyone here already knows of a better
> solution which will work.
>
> Then Xilinx et al can generate memory maps and we can head towards
> having a single kernel binary bootable on multiple different ppc
> boards.
I would be nice to have an extensive and dynamic way to pass info from
the bootloader to the kernel. I believe that Wolfgang has stated he
would be willing to change u-boot to match. I'd be willing to fixup
and move Freescale boards over to use something as long as we get
u-boot to support it as well.
I've been told that ARM has a solution, in place, to this problem that
might always be worth looking at.
- kumar
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-01 3:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-30 23:02 bi_recs Jon Masters
2004-09-30 23:21 ` bi_recs Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-09-30 23:53 ` bi_recs Jon Masters
2004-10-01 3:11 ` Kumar Gala [this message]
2004-10-01 3:40 ` bi_recs Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-01 11:14 ` bi_recs Jon Masters
2004-10-01 14:53 ` [PATCH] for linuxppc-2.4 tree: adds Memec 2VP7 / 2VP4 board support Andrei Konovalov
2004-10-01 21:54 ` bi_recs Jon Masters
2004-10-02 4:35 ` bi_recs Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-02 12:59 ` bi_recs Jon Masters
2004-10-01 22:06 ` bi_recs Tom Rini
2004-10-04 6:07 ` bi_recs Pantelis Antoniou
2004-10-04 12:09 ` bi_recs Mark Chambers
2004-10-04 12:45 ` bi_recs Jon Masters
2004-10-04 16:43 ` bi_recs Dan Malek
2004-10-04 21:53 ` bi_recs Tom Rini
2004-10-04 20:20 ` bi_recs Wolfgang Denk
2004-10-04 14:29 ` bi_recs Tom Rini
2004-10-04 14:41 ` bi_recs Matt Porter
2004-10-04 15:00 ` bi_recs Kumar Gala
2004-10-04 15:06 ` bi_recs Jon Masters
2004-10-04 15:47 ` bi_recs Kumar Gala
2004-10-04 20:18 ` bi_recs Wolfgang Denk
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