Forwarding a chat on this:

21:53 < lool> nytowl: I find the ethaddr worrying; init=/bin/bash is clearly bad too; console=ttySAC1 sounds like it should be handled like serialtty in the other boards
21:54 < lool> nytowl: do you actually need baudrate, bootdelay etc. in there or would the u-boot default be good enough?
21:55 < nytowl> lool, I don't like the ethaddr and bash either but I'd like network to work and init cause a kernel panic
21:55 < lool> nytowl: comment on "size is 14 cylinder" doesn't make sense anymore
21:55 < nytowl> I could probably get rid of baudrate and bootdelay
21:56 < lool> nytowl: I think we need a way to amend the cmdline; if we had this, you could just use this feature to override the default init while the kernel is broken
21:56 < lool> nytowl: (if you're tempted to provide this, submit it separately so that it can be merged separately)
21:56 < lool> nytowl: seek=1089 sounds like magic, where does it come from?
21:57 < lool> same question for seek=9281
21:57 < lool> or seek=33
21:57 < lool> I understand the seek=1 one though   ;-)
21:57 < lool> and then there's this seek=65
21:57 < nytowl> Those are magic offsets that irom looks on the SD card for u-boot , uImage and initrd
21:57 < nytowl> I guess those should be commented :)

21:58 < lool> nytowl: uses_fat_boot_partition sounds like your board needs a different scheme
21:59 < nytowl> the boot_env is more than just the command line it is that flashable env I was talking to you about last week
21:59 < lool> nytowl: I think this board is substantially different and would warrant some deeper thoughts on how we should boot it and support it; where could I read about how it boots, which software 
              starts from where etc.?
21:59 < nytowl> lool there's a little info in the wiki about those offsets
22:00 < nytowl> https://wiki.linaro.org/Boards/SMDKV310/Setup
22:00 < lool> nytowl: My ideal documentation would be one which walks me through the various stages of the boot up to linux
22:01 < nytowl> lool that document doesn't exsist

22:01 < lool> nytowl: Is there some kind of technical reference manual for the SoC and some kind of user guide for the board?
22:02 < nytowl> lool, I have a data sheet for the SoC but no user guids
22:02 < lool> nytowl: test_smdkv310() says ,14,0xDA and then rootfs, but https://wiki.linaro.org/Boards/SMDKV310/Setup says rootfs starts at 204001
22:03 < nytowl> lool I fixed the sfdisk get command but forgot about the test
22:05 < lool> nytowl: It seems you have u-boot running and that it's loading kernel and initrd from mmc, so I presume it has mmc support; why wouldn't it be able to load uimage and uinitrd from a MMC 
              partition instead of loading them from hardcoded MMC offsets?
22:05 < lool> nytowl: Is the datasheet NDA?  would I be able to get access to it?
22:06 < nytowl> lool, that was going to be step 2
22:06 < lool> nytowl: Is it from the datasheet that you found about these values?
22:06 < lool> nytowl: I think the l-i-t diff might be much smaller if you were using the same layout with vfat partition etc. as other boards
22:06 < nytowl> lool, now those values can from the BSP u-boot and discussions with Samsung
22:07 < nytowl> lool, it would be but i wanted to get the board booting first and then start fixing things