[U-Boot-Users] Re: FT u-boot shim

Pantelis Antoniou pantelis at embeddedalley.com
Fri Apr 28 00:28:28 CEST 2006


On Friday 28 April 2006 01:12, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> [linuxppc-dev removed, this is off topic there.]
> 
> In message <44513DC1.8040608 at orkun.us> you wrote:
> >
> > How would you like to handle the case when dts is packed into 
> > multi-image file? Is bootm going to assume that the 3rd Image is dts?
> 
> With Ramdisk: kernel is 1st, ramdisk is 2nd, and dts is an optional
> 	3rd file.
> Without ramdisk: kernel is 1st, and dts is an optional 2nd file.
> 
> The image type will be used to find out what is what.
> 
> > Since dts is tightly coupled to kernel I would prefer something like:
> > 
> > bootm <kernel_addr>[:<dts_addr>] <ramdisk_addr>
> 
> That would be an option, too, but I think my proposal  is  easier  to
> remember, especially when thinking of the multi-file image case.
> 

It won't work.

The blob must contain the ethernet mac addresses for example...

> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Wolfgang Denk
> 

Regards

Pantelis




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