Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Ben, > > in message <1116478614.918.75.camel at gaston> you wrote: > >>And here is a second draft with more infos. >> >> Booting the Linux/ppc64 kernel without Open Firmware > > > Thanks a lot for taking the initiative to come to an agreement about > the kernel boot interface. > > I have some concerns about the memory foot print and increased boot > time that will result from the proposed solution. There are many > embedded systems where resources are tight and requirements are aven > tighter. It would be probably a good idea to also ask for feedback > from these folks - for example by posting your RFC on the celinux-dev > mailing list. > > But my biggest concern is that we should try to come up with a > solution that has a wider acceptance. Especially from the U-Boot > point of view it is not exactly nice that each of PowerPC, ARM and > MIPS use their very own, completely incompatible way of passing in- > formation from the boot loader to the kernel. > > As is, your proposal will add just another incompatible way of doing > the same thing (of course we will have to stay backward compatible > with U-Boot to allow booting older kernels, too). > > > Why don't we try to come up with a solution that is acceptable to the > other architectures as well? > > Maybe you want to post the RFC to lkml, or at least to the > linux-arm-kernel and linux-mips mailing lists? >
I'm really interested in having this discussion. I'm forced to maintain my own u-boot based solution for doing this and I'd be very interested in whatever gets chosen. IMHO the current mess is considerable, and at this point I wouldn't really care if the resulting solution is less than optimal, as long as there is one. > Best regards, > > Wolfgang Denk > Regards Pantelis
