From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:43:15 +0100
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Who sets the boot parameters? 
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In message <c3d0340b0411181915f8a5e9e@mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> The boot parameter is transferred to a linux kernel by r2. Many boards

Maybe, maybe not. This may  be  rioght  on  one  architecture,  other
architectures do it differently.

> set the bd->bi_boot_param to a fixed address? How does this value come
> from? Who set the boot parameters at that address?

See what common/cmd_bootm.c is doing with the "bootargs"  environment
variable.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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