[U-Boot-Users] kernel parameters for ARM

Robert Schwebel robert at schwebel.de
Fri Jan 17 01:07:49 CET 2003


On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 05:07:55PM +0100, David M?ller wrote:
> The values stored in U-Boot's "gd->bd->bi_boot_params" variable and
> the "BOOT_PARAMS" macro in the machine specific "arch" file of
> ARMLinux have to be equal. AFAICS there is not passing in of the
> pointer to the tag list in r2, at least not in the kernel i'm looking
> at.

Ah, ok, that does work. 

Russell, the documentation in Documentation/arm/Booting seems to be
missleading. Is the BOOT_PARAMS method the right way to go? If yes, how
does the kernel know which address the bootloader uses to store the
tagged list? 

Robert
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