[U-Boot-Users] Can U-boot Autodetect arch/ppcversusarch/powerpc from info in the uImage?

Joakim Tjernlund joakim.tjernlund at transmode.se
Fri Dec 7 07:55:56 CET 2007


> -----Original Message-----
> From: wd at denx.de [mailto:wd at denx.de] 
> Sent: den 7 december 2007 01:58
> To: Joakim Tjernlund
> Cc: u-boot-users at lists.sourceforge.net; 'Darcy Watkins'
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] Can U-boot Autodetect 
> arch/ppcversusarch/powerpc from info in the uImage?
> 
> In message <00aa01c83859$77863cb0$02ac10ac at Jocke> you wrote:
> >
> > The extension I made can just as easily be a function that 
> returns a dev. tree.
> > 
> > - One can have a dev. tree update procedure similar to
> >   rendundant env. The funktion then selects which dev. tree 
> is valid and passes
> >   that back.
> > 
> > - The function can construct a dev. tree from builtin rules/code.
> > 
> > - One can even make it tftp a tree at boot and pass that back. Great
> >   in a development env. especially if you are debugging the 
> dev. tree.
> > 
> > and the kicker is that you can still override this tree at 
> runtime by passing
> > a dev. tree argument to bootm.
> > 
> > All this will be possible by the simple patch I posted 
> earlier, included
> > below.
> 
> Um... and which of these cannot be done without your patch?

The kicker part, override the tree at runtime. It is
also a bit easier do the above my way than messing with
a env variable.

 Jocke





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