From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-out.m-online.net (mail-out.m-online.net [212.18.0.9]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CCA167A00 for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 18:37:46 +1000 (EST) To: Tom Rini From: Wolfgang Denk Subject: Re: FT u-boot shim Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 28 Apr 2006 17:52:31 PDT." <20060429005231.GH458@smtp.west.cox.net> Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 10:37:43 +0200 Sender: wd@denx.de Message-Id: <20060429083743.64CA7353A56@atlas.denx.de> Cc: "linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org list" , Paul Mackerras List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , In message <20060429005231.GH458@smtp.west.cox.net> you wrote: > > > In my understanding, 1. is with a shim; 2. is loading a separate dtb > > (probably as multi-file image), and 3. is when U-Boot provides the > > dtb. Am I missing something? > > I'm suggesting that we make 2 easier. U-Boot needs the file mkuimage'd > anyways. Why not make it easier and make adding the dtb part of that > step instead of a seperate load? It's still quite easy to replace if > you're testing new dtb's out. But that's what I'm trying to tell you all the time. An U-Boot multi-file image is a single file (=no separate load) which combines several files (similar to a tarball), here the kernel + dtb (+ eventually ramdisk). Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@denx.de Shakespeare's Law of Prototyping: (Hamlet III, iv, 156-160) O, throw away the worser part of it, And live the purer with the other half.