[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Add call command on PPC

[Mike Frysinger]

On Friday 15 February 2008, Kumar Gala wrote:
> The main reason for me doing this was to provide a "generic" mechanism
> that mimic how we boot kernels on PPC.

is that the only reason ?  what format is the kernel that you're attempting to 
boot ?  assuming it's an ELF ...

at the moment, the Blackfin code base maintained on blackfin.uclinux.org has 
hacked the "bootelf" command to assume it is always booting a kernel.  this 
way we can load/boot the ELF image of our kernels in memory and have the 
$(bootargs) and such actually get passed properly (dont yell at me for this, 
the change was before my time, and i agree it's crap :p).

in other words, a common function for booting a linux ELF kernel image would 
be great.  especially considering the fact we have a "bootvx" that takes an 
ELF image, sets up the bootargs, and then boots it properly.  seems messed up 
that booting vxworks sees better support than booting linux ;)
-mike
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