Dear Rob Herring, > On 03/15/2012 04:10 PM, Rob Herring wrote: > > On 03/15/2012 03:29 PM, Marek Vasut wrote: > >> Dear Rob Herring, > >> > >>> On 03/15/2012 02:05 PM, Marek Vasut wrote: > >>>> Dear Rob Herring, > >>>> > >>>>> On 03/15/2012 02:52 AM, Marek Vasut wrote: > >>>>>> From: Marek Vasut <marek.va...@gmail.com> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> This command boots Linux zImage from where the zImage is loaded to. > >>>>>> Passing initrd and fdt is supported. > >>>>> > >>>>> This is great! However, the initrd is still in the u-boot image > >>>>> format, right? > >>>>> > >>>>> If a raw initrd is supported, then we could get rid of flash-kernel > >>>>> on disk-based debian/ubuntu systems. The file size is known from the > >>>>> filesystem, but then needs to get to the bootz command somehow. > >>>> > >>>> Yes. Initrd still needs a bit of work, ideas? > >> > >> You lost some people in the Cc ;-) > > > > They weren't in the original email header, only in the commit log as > > Cc's. > > > >>> How about: > >>> > >>> bootz <kern addr> [<fdt addr> [<initrd addr> [<initrd size>]]] > >> > >> What about bootz <kern addr> <initrd addr>[:<initrd size>] <fdt addr> > >> > >> example: bootz 0x12000000 0x13000000:0x40000 0x14000000 > > > > Sure. That works for me. > > > >>> I changed the order so the size can be optional without resorting to > >>> using a "-". Then no size means u-boot image format. > >>> > >>> File load commands would need to set loadsize env var. > >> > >> If you load kernel after initrd, that's screw things up. > > > > Yes, but you already have to be aware of some commands which will change > > env vars. This has to be script-able to be useful. The only other way I > > see is adding a command to get the size of a file. Perhaps the ls > > commands when given a single file can do that. > > Turns out there is already a filesize variable that gets set on file > load commands. > > And RTFM didn't help as that one is not documented... ;)
Rob, I just send in support for RAW initrd. Can you give it a go? Best regards, Marek Vasut _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
