Re: EV-64260-BP & GT64260 bi_recs
From: Murray Jensen <hidden>
Date: 2002-03-25 00:44:10
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 12:09:30 -0700, Val Henson [off-list ref] writes:
How about one BI_IGNORE type, and driver writers and firmware authors can put whatever they feel like inside that bi_rec?
The kernel should simply ignore any bi_rec it doesn't know about. You don't need a special record tag for this. Any bi_recs within bi_recs are all ignored in one fell swoop, since the outer record tag is unknown.
It should be a way of passing information that only a bootloader can know, such as the location of a ramdisk, or the command line that the user typed into the bootloader.
Why only that? Why not use it to pass anything that the bootloader knows so that you don't have to duplicate effort in the Linux kernel? And anticipating the obvious answer, if a boot loader does not support bi_recs and/or cannot provide some required information, then you need a piggy back loader in arch/ppc/boot. Cheers! Murray... -- Murray Jensen, CSIRO Manufacturing Sci & Tech, Phone: +61 3 9662 7763 Locked Bag No. 9, Preston, Vic, 3072, Australia. Fax: +61 3 9662 7853 Internet: Murray.Jensen@csiro.au Hymod project: http://www.msa.cmst.csiro.au/projects/Hymod/ ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/