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| author |   Angelos Mouzakitis <a.mouzakitis@virtualopensystems.com> | 2023-10-10 14:33:42 +0000 |
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| committer | Angelos Mouzakitis <a.mouzakitis@virtualopensystems.com> | 2023-10-10 14:33:42 +0000 |
| commit | af1a266670d040d2f4083ff309d732d648afba2a (patch) | |
| tree | 2fc46203448ddcc6f81546d379abfaeb323575e9 /roms/u-boot/doc/README.plan9 | |
| parent | e02cda008591317b1625707ff8e115a4841aa889 (diff) | |
Change-Id: Iaf8d18082d3991dec7c0ebbea540f092188eb4ec
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diff --git a/roms/u-boot/doc/README.plan9 b/roms/u-boot/doc/README.plan9 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2d3d0e0cf --- /dev/null +++ b/roms/u-boot/doc/README.plan9 @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Plan 9 from Bell Labs kernel images require additional setup to pass +configuration information to the kernel. An environment variable named +confaddr must be defined with the same value as CONFADDR (see mem.h). +Use of this facility is optional, but should be preferable to manual +configuration. + +When booting an image, arguments supplied to the bootm command will be +copied to CONFADDR. If no arguments are specified, the contents of the +bootargs environment variable will be copied. + +If no command line arguments or bootargs are defined, CONFADDR is left +uninitialized to permit manual configuration. For example, PC-style +configuration could be simulated by issuing a fatload in bootcmd: + + # setenv bootcmd fatload mmc 0 $confaddr plan9.ini; ...; bootm + +Steven Stallion +June 2013 |