On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 09:07:20AM +0300, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: > Tom Rini wrote: [snip] > >I've been thinking about it, and I do believe that Ben's flattened OF > >tree wins the "show me the code" race, so lets go that way. I'll add in > >that for most platforms we'll want to build up the tree at compile time, > >but U-Boot, and anything else smart enough can pass one in for real. > > > >Jon, I look forward to your patch. :) > > > > > Allow me, to cut in and plug my own thing. [snip] > I just create an argv of all the environment variables of the firmware > and I pass the psysical address of that NULL terminated argv array > to the kernel command line like so... "u-boot-env=0x0f000f00".
The 'problem' I forsee with this is that we still have two methods for getting stuff in, an OF tree or env array. If we got with a fake OF tree, we have just one method and we can always use it. [snip] > I know this is the Nth time this discussion is taking place bu IMO something > must be finally decided. I don't really care if my solution will be selected > as long as something is at last selected. As far as I'm concerned, unless some horrible problem springs up that we can't resolve, this is it. -- Tom Rini http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
