From: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
To: Kelvin Cheung <keguang.zhang@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
wuzhangjin@gmail.com, zhzhl555@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V7 2/4] MIPS: Add board support for Loongson1B
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 11:52:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2804040.40WPNaPH7R@flexo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJhJPsVaK4dRbxhB_3QKhrgF3=tYXWwOcppH9V=a871UMRxRew@mail.gmail.com>
On Thursday 21 June 2012 17:11:04 Kelvin Cheung wrote:
> 2012/6/21 Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
>
> > On Thursday 21 June 2012 15:34:54 Kelvin Cheung wrote:
> > > 2012/6/21 Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
> > [snip]
> > > >
> > > > And the final plug - take a look at FDT for a future revision of this
> > > > code :)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > Yes, I am aware that the FDT is the final target.
> > > But PMON which is the bootloader of Loongson CPU does not support FDT at
> > > present.
> > > I will remember this.
> >
> > Your bootloader does not need to support FDT, as long as you can provide a
> > FDT
> > by other means, such as appending a FDT at the end of your kernel.
> >
>
> But how can I verify these code without support of bootloader?
Since you will be appending a DTB at the end of your kernel, you can start
adding some properties to your DTS file and let the kernel parse them and make
sure everything is correctly represented using device tree, then start
removing your platform devices etc ...
--
Florian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-21 9:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-15 10:53 [PATCH V7 0/4] MIPS: Add support for Loongson1B Kelvin Cheung
2012-06-15 10:53 ` [PATCH V7 1/4] MIPS: Add CPU " Kelvin Cheung
2012-06-20 19:13 ` Ralf Baechle
2012-06-15 10:53 ` [PATCH V7 2/4] MIPS: Add board " Kelvin Cheung
2012-06-20 19:25 ` Ralf Baechle
2012-06-20 19:35 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2012-06-20 20:10 ` Florian Fainelli
2012-06-21 11:32 ` Ralf Baechle
2012-06-21 7:37 ` Kelvin Cheung
2012-06-21 7:34 ` Kelvin Cheung
2012-06-21 8:18 ` Florian Fainelli
2012-06-21 9:11 ` Kelvin Cheung
2012-06-21 9:52 ` Florian Fainelli [this message]
2012-06-15 10:53 ` [PATCH V7 3/4] MIPS: Add Makefile and Kconfig " Kelvin Cheung
2012-06-15 10:53 ` [PATCH V7 4/4] MIPS: Add defconfig " Kelvin Cheung
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-07-07 9:29 [PATCH V7 2/4] MIPS: Add board support " Kelvin Cheung
2012-07-24 15:24 ` Kelvin Cheung
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