From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pantelis Antoniou Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 08:32:21 +0300 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Add Flat OF tree support. In-Reply-To: <20051012235216.E1383353E1D@atlas.denx.de> References: <20051012235216.E1383353E1D@atlas.denx.de> Message-ID: <200510130832.21894.pantelis.antoniou@gmail.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Thursday 13 October 2005 02:52, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > In message <200509041336.52311.pantelis.antoniou@gmail.com> you wrote: > ... > > * Support passing of OF flat trees to the kernel. > > Specific support for the STXtc. > > Patch by Pantelis Antoniou, 04 Sep 2005 > > Added, thanks. > > Note 1: can you please submit a new patch to add a show doc/README.OFT > or so which explains where the required dtc tool can be found? > Here you go. > Note 2: you owe Stefan Roese a beer or two. > Only one? I was thinking of a case :). > Best regards, > > Wolfgang Denk > Regards Pantelis -------------- next part -------------- Added a small doc file for pointing out where the tools for OF tree support are located. --- commit a014911ad67dfcdd40b5258be8fe666bc13930c0 tree 10cddfbab8571a2a459a54441b4fdf29e5464cf6 parent 0cdd3d61b6489a8a25cd07e256072b6581200871 author Pantelis Antoniou Thu, 13 Oct 2005 08:30:11 +0300 committer Pantelis Antoniou Thu, 13 Oct 2005 08:30:11 +0300 doc/README.OFT | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/README.OFT b/doc/README.OFT new file mode 100644 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/README.OFT @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +Open Firmware Flat Tree and usage. +---------------------------------- + +As part of the ongoing cleanup of the linux PPC trees, the preferred +way to pass bootloader and board setup information is the open +firmware flat tree. + +Please take a look at the following email discussion for some +background. + + http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-August/019408.html + http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-August/019362.html + +The generated tree is part static and part dynamic. + +There is a static part which is compiled in with DTC and a dynamic +part which is programmatically appended. + +You'll need a fairly recent DTC tool, which is available by git at. + + rsync://ozlabs.org/dtc/dtc.git + +The xxd binary dumper is needed too which I got from + + ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/utilities/etc/xxd-1.10.tar.gz +