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M. Warner Losh ha scritto:
> I have a .dts file that works with 2.6.18 (MV Pro 5.0).  I encode it
> directly into the kernel image.  However, when I try to use it with my
> 2.6.23, 2.6.24 or 2.6.25 kernel trees, it doesn't work at all.  In the
> MV Pro 5.0 kernel, I hacked the startup sequence to store a pointer to
> this blob in r3 so that it is moved in.  I've done something similar
> in -current (for reasons that are too complicated to really explain
> well, we can't do this via the normal boot loader mechanisms).  The
> dtc complains that the interrupt-controller property is obsolete on
> the chosen device.
> 
> Does any documentation exist for how dts has evolved?  I'd like to
> forward port what I have without examining the .dts files from both
> versions and guessing...
> 
> Warner
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Check out the kernel documentation booting-without-of.txt of your version.

Regards,

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Marco Stornelli
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