[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/6] P1021: add P1021MDS board support

[Scott Wood]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 21:18:35 +0100
Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:

> Dear Scott Wood,
> 
> In message <20110131140801.33609642 at udp111988uds.am.freescale.net> you wrote:
> >
> > > Please rather omit the setting instead of using fillers that are of no
> > > practical value.
> > 
> > Well, they do make it easier for a user to quickly see what the names
> > are that U-Boot expects for such commonly used things, rather than
> > having to scan the manual.
> 
> I doubt both the "quicly see" part (in such a long list of settings)
> and the "rather than having to scan the manual" part.

I've found it convenient, along with the more meaningful error
messages if I forget to replace one of them.  YMMV.

> > > > +	"ramdiskfile=your.ramdisk.u-boot\0"				\
> > > 
> > > Ditto. [BTW: why "....ramdisk.u-boot"? U-Boot does not use ramdisks.
> > > The ramdisk is only used for some OS, so that should probably be
> > > "...ramdisk.linux" instead?]
> > 
> > We often use the ".u-boot" suffix on ramdisks that have been wrapped
> > with a uImage header.
> 
> That would be a "uRamdisk" then (similar to uImage).

Is anyone actually calling it that?  What if I have multiple ramdisk
images that I want to call different names?

FWIW, for non-Linux OS images we sometimes use .uImage as a suffix.

-Scott