Subject: Re: CPCI-405 port (PPC405GP)

From: Josh Huber <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 11:57:34 -0400

Dan Malek <[email-masked]> 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)

> I would suggest just creating a standard interface to calling an
> image and passing information.  Create a function in the
> embed_config.c to parse it, and call it a day......

It seems to me like a cleaner solution to have the bootloader
uncompress and pass information to the kernel directly...

--
Josh Huber

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