Re: EVBARM - layout of BootConfig structure

Jason Thorpe <[email protected]> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 08:26:59 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.arm,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.evbarm
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On Monday, August 11, 2003, at 01:58  AM, Richard Earnshaw wrote:

> so that it is possible in future to bump the size of DRAM_BLOCKS 
> without
> breaking a binary interface that is notionally shared between
> netbsd/evbarm and its "bios" (having netbsd able to access a larger 
> array
> won't hurt, since the size only matters if NetBSD allocates one of 
> these
> statically, and if it doesn't then it will never access beyond
> dramblocks-1 entries).  However, doing so will break things if any
> existing builds are already using a "bios" to probe memory.

As far as I know, no evbarm port actually uses that BootConfig 
structure to communicate with anything.  It is a left-over from the 
"arm32" port days.  I'd really like to see that structure go away 
completely.

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <[email protected]>