From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp104.biz.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp104.biz.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.52.173]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1EAE4DDEC6 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:26:19 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: device tree / how to build/compile & use with u-boot to boot uImage? From: Ben Warren To: "Morrison, Tom" In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:19:38 -0500 Message-Id: <1171059578.14627.147.camel@saruman.qstreams.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org Reply-To: bwarren@qstreams.com List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Tom, I feel your pain. On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 16:55 -0500, Morrison, Tom wrote: > All, > > I've looked at the Documentation/powerpc/booting_without_of.txt, > and this gives an explanation of the internal parts of the dts file, > but it doesn't tell me how to practically pass it to the kernel > from u-boot (e.g.: load to memory - and use bootm xxx yyy zzz) > > I am pretty darn confused about this whole thing. Can anybody point me > to > a SUCCINCT explanation of the use of a dts file (and how compile and use > > with u-boot to pass to kernel)? > u-boot> bootm If you don't have an initrd, it's u-boot> bootm - Hope that's succinct enough. Ben