[U-Boot-Users] kernel parameters for ARM

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Fri Jan 17 01:02:24 CET 2003


On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 01:07:49AM +0100, Robert Schwebel wrote:
> 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? 

See my mail from about 5 minutes ago explaining this.




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