On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 3:32 AM, André Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's a MPC5200B. I thought that the "b"-Option has already out of use after > reading about this a few weeks ago ... maybe I misinterpreted.
No, I'm *toying* with the idea, but I haven't decided yet. > > I think it would be better to just leave out the partition information > > and modify U-Boot to fill them in (just like memory and clock speed are > > left out). Things like flash partitions are less like hardware > > description and more like configuration data. > > never did this. Is it quick'n'easy ? > Honestly I don't like the bootloader to set up everything. > If you need any change it will require a bootloader update which is a very > fragile operation out in the field. > There will always be bricked systems afterwards .... > Failure in updating the (redundant) dtb blob or kernel will do almost always > no harm since the system is still accessible and flashable using ethernet or > serial. > > If it's not against all rule (which I don't think) I'd really like to stick > to it, too. > Is this ok ? hurumm... okay, leave it in. I suppose it isn't a risky thing to do. g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
