Re: suggestion

[Abraham vd M. <ab...@2d...>]

Hi Erik!

> > Anyone have any objections if I change blob so that you can put the
> > kernel+ramdisk+jffs2+etc offsets & sizes in the parameter block? That w=
ay
> > you can have different board setups without changing blob.
>=20
> As a matter of fact: yes. The idea is to use a flash partition table
> for that. Both the partition table and the paramter block are small
> structures, so I want to put them in the same flash block. I'm going to
> work on the partition table this weekend: we need it anyway for quite
> some other stuff (JFFS2, cramfs, tftp).

Good. I also think we should make it so that you can configure this
(partition+kernel parameters) from blob (and not via some other program +
uploading the parameter block to blob) - after all, it is part of the
configuration.

--=20

Regards
 Abraham

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