[U-Boot] Passing bootargs to arm64 kernel

Youngmin Nam ym0914 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 14 04:34:20 CEST 2014


Thank you for reply Tom,
Let me ask you some questions.

Can we set kernel's bootargs without re-compiling device tree on arm64
kernel by u-boot?

I mean, I want to set kernel's bootargs by u-boot without re-compiling
device tree.

Is it possible?
2014. 8. 13. 오후 7:39에 "Tom Rini" <trini at ti.com>님이 작성:

> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 11:21:32AM +0900, Youngmin Nam wrote:
>
> > Hello.
> > I'm trying to find a way how to pass bootargs to arm64 kernel.
> >
> > In arm32 kernel, we can pass bootargs with atag from u-boot to kernel.
> So,
> > we can overwrite kernel's bootargs with u-boot's bootargs.
> >
> > But from arm64 kernel, the dtb is the only argument that should be passed
> > from bootloader which is mandatory.
> > you can find this contents in kernel
> > documentation.(Documentation/arm64/Booting.txt)
> >
> > So,  is there any way how to set bootargs by u-boot?
>
> Yes, within the device tree, like we do today.  There's a few issues we
> have today, but I need to re-post the booti command support patches,
> given what's coming in 3.17 in the kernel.
>
> --
> Tom
>


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