From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org,
Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 07/24] C6X: devicetree support
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:57:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201109281657.34471.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1317221051.2580.76.camel@deneb.redhat.com>
On Wednesday 28 September 2011, Mark Salter wrote:
> > Other architectures allow simply appending the device tree to the
> > kernel image file, which is more convenient for users and does
> > not require much kernel support. Have you tried this?
>
> Well, I considered it. My main reason for doing it this way was one of
> debugging convenience. The debugger loads an ELF file and while I was
> making lots of device tree changes in the tree and in the code, it was
> more convenient to have one ELF file to deal with rather than an ELF
> file and a dtb. And the thought was to get rid of it altogether once
> bootloader support comes along. Maybe the thing to do would be to just
> rip it out of the kernel. It can almost as easily be post-processing
> step outside the kernel.
Ok, if you plan to properly support it in the boot loader anyway,
that's probably the best option.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-28 14:57 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <1317155405-26235-1-git-send-email-msalter@redhat.com>
2011-09-27 20:29 ` [PATCH v3 07/24] C6X: devicetree support Mark Salter
2011-09-28 13:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-09-28 14:44 ` Mark Salter
2011-09-28 14:57 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2011-09-28 23:11 ` Grant Likely
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