Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:05:23 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: stas@FreeBSD.org Cc: arm@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Code review request: boards on AT91 Message-ID: <20081125.120523.-201316873.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20081125220040.c8996e0b.stas@FreeBSD.org> References: <20081125212409.3dab8178.stas@FreeBSD.org> <20081125.113647.1346821827.imp@bsdimp.com> <20081125220040.c8996e0b.stas@FreeBSD.org>
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Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org> writes:
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: On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:36:47 -0700 (MST)
: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> mentioned:
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: > :
: > : 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.
: >
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: 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.
You are assuming that /boot/loader is always used. In the cases where
it isn't, we need that value from r3. when it is, a kenv could be
used. This switching likely also needs to be configurable more easily
than it is now.
Warner
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