Code review request: boards on AT91

Stanislav Sedov stas at FreeBSD.org
Tue Nov 25 10:59:19 PST 2008


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On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:36:47 -0700 (MST)
"M. Warner Losh" <imp at 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.

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Stanislav Sedov
ST4096-RIPE
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