From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Jerry Van Baren <gvb.linuxppc.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Mikrotik RouterBoard 333
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:13:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080721211344.GA13268@loki.buserror.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <487AA17E.6000808@gmail.com>
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 08:44:46PM -0400, Jerry Van Baren wrote:
> I'm a half-ack. ;-) I'm partial to u-boot's implementation rather than
> using a bootwrapper for obvious reasons. The u-boot implementation
> takes the blob as a boot parameter and passes it along to the kernel
> after doing appropriate (optional) fixups.
And if those fixups expect a malformed device tree?
> Other than that quibble, I agree that burning the blob into the firmware
> so that the firmware must be recompiled and reburned to change the blob
> is very undesirable.
I thought the device tree was *supposed* to be an interface between the
firmware and the kernel? What if the firmware produces the tree
dynamically? What if the firmware itself depends on having the device tree
in order to operate?
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-21 21:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-08 4:26 Mikrotik RouterBoard 333 David Gibson
2008-07-09 4:09 ` Grant Likely
2008-07-14 0:44 ` Jerry Van Baren
2008-07-21 21:13 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2008-07-21 22:13 ` Segher Boessenkool
2008-07-22 2:54 ` Jerry Van Baren
2008-07-22 3:48 ` David Gibson
2008-07-22 14:56 ` Scott Wood
2008-07-15 0:17 ` Segher Boessenkool
2008-07-15 1:41 ` David Gibson
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