[U-Boot] Need assistance with increasing command line size on Cavium

Garrett Cooper yanegomi at gmail.com
Fri Jul 3 02:49:15 CEST 2009


On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Detlev Zundel<dzu at denx.de> wrote:
> Hi Garrett,
>
>>     Our group is running into command line length issues with a number
>> of Cavium boards we have at our office (CN38xx, CN5xxx), and I was
>> wondering (apart from the Linux kernel command line length), where I
>> would look to increase the size for the command line that's passed
>> from U-boot to the Linux kernel, as well as maybe which config file I
>> should be modifying to enact these changes.
>
> First thing would be to ask whoever provided you with the code ;)
>
> If this doesn't help, check the code in lib_mips/bootm.c.  Especially
> linux_params_init.  Also be sure to check what gd->bd->bi_boot_params is
> on your boards.
>
> As I cannot see any Cavium support in mainline U-Boot, when can we
> expect the patches adding support to be posted? :)

Crud. If they've been hacking U-boot, then I can't say when it can be
released as I don't own the code :(...
-Garrett


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