From: robherring2@gmail.com (Rob Herring)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Device tree.
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 08:52:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50056E22.5040308@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8f3d9be256cbe0feec86cca6aaefd437@codethink.co.uk>
On 07/17/2012 08:25 AM, Ben Dooks wrote:
> On 17/07/2012 14:07, Ian Molton wrote:
>> On 17/07/12 13:32, Josh Coombs wrote:
>>> make make target.dtb
>>> cat arch/arm/boot/target.dtb >> arch/arm/boot/zImage
>>> make uImage
>>
>> Yick...
>
> How about adding a dts=<address> argument to the current
> command line handling. If this is found, then the system
> ignores the rest of the atags passed and uses the passed
> address for the device-tree settings.
>
> This means in u-boot, you just need to load the .dts file
> into place before booting the kernel.
>
You mean dtb...
But no, we don't need a 3rd boot interface in the kernel. I don't see
why cat + mkimage is too hard to run.
Now that u-boot has direct support for zImage booting, I doubt anything
uImage building related will ever be accepted into the kernel.
Rob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-17 13:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-17 11:55 Device tree Ian Molton
2012-07-17 12:01 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-07-17 12:13 ` Ian Molton
2012-07-17 12:29 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-07-17 12:41 ` Florian Fainelli
2012-07-17 13:32 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-07-17 12:32 ` Josh Coombs
2012-07-17 13:07 ` Ian Molton
2012-07-17 13:25 ` Ben Dooks
2012-07-17 13:52 ` Rob Herring [this message]
2012-07-17 13:56 ` Ben Dooks
2012-07-17 14:02 ` Florian Fainelli
2012-07-17 14:55 ` Ian Molton
2012-07-17 21:18 ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-07-18 7:51 ` Ian Molton
2012-07-18 13:42 ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-07-19 9:07 ` Ian Molton
2012-07-19 21:32 ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-07-23 13:10 ` Mark Brown
2012-07-17 14:05 ` Mark Brown
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