In message 4146C728.7010006@intracom.gr you wrote:
The following patch allows the passing of the full u-boot environment to the booting running kernel.
What it does after that is a matter of discussion currently.
Which discussion are you referring to? I haven't seen any related message yet.
In the following days I'll also post patches for the kernel and busybox showing what can be acheived.
Please hold on for a moment.
I'm afraid I have to tell you that I don't think this makes sense at all.
There are several reasons for me to tend to reject this patch:
* The Linux kernel's command line is limited in size. You cannot pass arbitrary amounts of data to the kernel this way.
* If you want to make the U-Boot environment accessable to the kernel, there are other (better?) ways like making it available by the kernel directory (reading directly through the MTD layer for flash, or from I2C for EEPROM, etc.).
* The U-Boot environment usually contains LOTS of definitions which are definitely useless in the Linux kernel, so why pass random data which will never be needed anyway?
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk