Re: [U-Boot] dtb vs. kernel command line arguments

2013-04-15 Thread Grant Likely
On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 18:03:23 -0600, Kim Phillips kim.phill...@freescale.com wrote: On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 10:30:45 -0800 Curt Brune c...@cumulusnetworks.com wrote: Hello - I want to pass a number of arguments from u-boot to the booted kernel. The arguments are needed by user space

Re: [U-Boot] dtb vs. kernel command line arguments

2013-03-05 Thread Simon Glass
Hi Kim, On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Kim Phillips kim.phill...@freescale.com wrote: On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 10:30:45 -0800 Curt Brune c...@cumulusnetworks.com wrote: Hello - I want to pass a number of arguments from u-boot to the booted kernel. The arguments are needed by user space

Re: [U-Boot] dtb vs. kernel command line arguments

2013-03-05 Thread Tom Rini
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 11:16:17AM -0800, Simon Glass wrote: Hi Kim, On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Kim Phillips kim.phill...@freescale.com wrote: On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 10:30:45 -0800 Curt Brune c...@cumulusnetworks.com wrote: Hello - I want to pass a number of arguments from

Re: [U-Boot] dtb vs. kernel command line arguments

2013-03-05 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Simon, In message capnjgz3apwsjzv7zpe+b8a58zu-dxhdrglcyiwhcm6dqqyf...@mail.gmail.com you wrote: please don't dual-purpose device trees as a mechanism of getting arguments through the kernel into userspace - device trees strictly describe the hardware. That's certainly the primary

[U-Boot] dtb vs. kernel command line arguments

2013-03-04 Thread Curt Brune
Hello - I want to pass a number of arguments from u-boot to the booted kernel. The arguments are needed by user space applications, not the kernel. I can think of two ways: 1. append args by setting bootargs. 2. add nodes to the dtb before booting. Is there a preferred way to pass

Re: [U-Boot] dtb vs. kernel command line arguments

2013-03-04 Thread Kim Phillips
On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 10:30:45 -0800 Curt Brune c...@cumulusnetworks.com wrote: Hello - I want to pass a number of arguments from u-boot to the booted kernel. The arguments are needed by user space applications, not the kernel. I can think of two ways: 1. append args by setting bootargs.