Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:00:40 +0300 From: Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Code review request: boards on AT91 Message-ID: <20081125220040.c8996e0b.stas@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20081125.113647.1346821827.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <20081125.104452.535842403.imp@bsdimp.com> <20081125212409.3dab8178.stas@FreeBSD.org> <20081125.113647.1346821827.imp@bsdimp.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:36:47 -0700 (MST) "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> mentioned: > : > : I think we could pass the board type via a special kenv variable > : for now. I think it will work fine and applicable to all supported > : architectures. We could probably reuse board type constants that Linux > : kernel uses. > > Right now that's passed in from uboot and other loaders in I think r3, > but I'd have to go look at some other code to be sure. > Well, I don't think we want to follow The Linux kernel argument passing paradigm... But using a simple kenv variable would be just fine. We have a patch ready for kenv/hints support in u-boot and in our arm port, and our loader could be used on arm with Rafal's u-boot API. - -- Stanislav Sedov ST4096-RIPE -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAkksS1gACgkQK/VZk+smlYFbXgCeIjnGNdYD6bdCxCSQFR4hVrdr NxQAn20bqjk7Ln+XjScOlEiaoJ1NNBbQ =UT0L -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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