On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 17:19, Marc Singer wrote:
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 02:21:48PM +0200, Jonas Larsson wrote:
I have a question regarding submitting patches.
Should I send them to the mailing list or to the patch tracking system at sourceforge? I've submitted a patch to sourcforge already.
The patch adds support for an environment variable 'arch' which is passed as the ARM machine number to the kernel if set. The u-boot behaviour is unchanged if 'arch' is not defined.
That's an interesting idea, though I'm not sure I can see how it would be valuable in practice. Do you have systems where the hardware setup is identitical but the ARM CPU is different?
Nope. The arch number specifies what kind of arm-board the kernel is booting on. One kernel binary is in my case able to handle 3 different versions of boards (and its hard or dangerous to find out by probing the board). The number is used to tell the kernel about how irq-lines etc are wired on the board. Perhaps the name 'arch' is a bad choice, perhaps "arm-mach" is better.
/ Jonas