I'm proposing an extension framework for the bootinfo structure used
to pass information from the bootstrap/loader to the kernel. Although
I'm only proposing this for the MIPS bootinfo, it's completely
applicable to any of them.
What I propose is adding an optional platform extension structure:
bootinfo_pext, surrounded by #ifdef BOOTINFO_PEXT
Any reason not to put the vendor bits into another piece of loader
metadata ? That seems the extensible way to add additional info from the
loader, rather than extending bootinfo (as was the case pre-loader days).
later,
Peter.
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