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Scott Wood wrote:
> Paul Gortmaker wrote:
>> OK, so does that mean that the cuboot wrapper is explicitly
>> not supported for all the 83xx, 85xx, and 86xx boards?
> 
> No (except 86xx, which doesn't have cuboot, because it never existed in 
> arch/ppc and thus there's no compatibility to maintain), it just means 
> that chosen was never added to those dts files, and thus cuboot has no 
> console output.

Also note that nothing stops the causal kernel booter
from _starting_ with an arch/powerpc/boot/dts/ file,
adding a node to it, and using _that_.

jdl