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When u-boot is used as a chain-loaded bootloader (replacing OS kernel), previous bootloader leaves data in RAM, that can be reused. For example, on recent arm linux system, when chainloading u-boot, there are initramfs and fdt in RAM prepared for OS booting. Initramfs may be modified to store u-boot's payload, thus providing the ability to use chainloaded u-boot to boot OS without any storage support. Two config options added: - SAVE_PREV_BL_INITRAMFS_START_ADDR saves initramfs start address to 'prevbl_initrd_start_addr' environment variable - SAVE_PREV_BL_FDT_ADDR saves fdt address to 'prevbl_fdt_addr' environment variable Signed-off-by: Dzmitry Sankouski <dsankouski@gmail.com> Cc: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>