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Subject: Re: [HACK] add sandpoint + flattened dt support to arch/powerpc/boot
From: Matthew McClintock <msm@freescale.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 08:52:01 -0500
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Do you have any comments about how you envision updating the "virtual"
mode image with information passed from the boot loader? I am asking
this from the standpoint of updating the "virtual" flat tree with
correct values, in order to boot from older firmware.

-Matthew 

On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 15:32 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> That is why, I think, what we should do is have rules for building
> separate zImage wrappers. The basic OF one (which exists in both real
> and virtual mode versions and that I'd like to make capable of also
> working if a flat device-tree is passed in), the zImage.sandpoint, the
> zImage.prep, and whatever...
>