[U-Boot-Users] Discrepancy in U-BOOT and linux?

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <b115cb5f0703202259t1135b5ffxe5e1482f64ff88b8 at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> Referring to http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/Kernel_Command_Line_Arguments

Read this page completely, please.

> suggests that the RAMDISK address and size should be passed to kernel
> in rd_start and rd_size command line arguments. However

Read: "This option was added in Linux 2.6.10-rc2"

> But why is this discrepancy in u-boot / kernel? How are others using
> (U-BOOT+linux+MIPS) combo coping with it? Are they also making changes
> in u-boot?

U-Boot has been supporting MIPS much longer, i. e. since a time  when
these  options  did not exist. And we want to support all versions of
the kernel. And adding the command line options is trivial in U-Boot
and requires no code changes...

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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