From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 19/19] bootwrapper: compatibility layer for old U-Boots (a.k.a. cuImage, cuboot)
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 08:15:29 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070208211529.GA1894@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070207230149.GS3849@ld0162-tx32.am.freescale.net>
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 05:01:49PM -0600, Scott Wood wrote:
> Add a bootwrapper platform (cuboot) that takes a bd_t from a legacy
> U-Boot, and inserts data from it into a device tree which has been
> compiled into the kernel. This should help ease the transition to
> arch/powerpc in cases where U-Boot has not yet been updated to pass a
> device tree, or where upgrading firmware isn't practical.
>
> The device trees currently in the kernel tree must have
> /chosen/linux,stdout-path added to work with cuboot.
>
> The kernel command line, mac addresses, and various clocks will be filled
> in based on the bd_t.
You're still using config dependent stuff in here...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-08 21:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-07 23:00 [PATCH 00/19] cuboot bootwrapper patchset Scott Wood
2007-02-07 23:01 ` [PATCH 01/19] bootwrapper: Add stddef.h to ops.h Scott Wood
2007-02-07 23:01 ` [PATCH 02/19] bootwrapper: Set -msoft-float and assembler target options Scott Wood
2007-02-07 23:01 ` [PATCH 03/19] bootwrapper: Remove OF-isms Scott Wood
2007-02-07 23:01 ` [PATCH 04/19] bootwrapper: Add ft_root_node() Scott Wood
2007-02-07 23:01 ` [PATCH 05/19] bootwrapper: Rename ft_node_add() to ft_get_phandle() Scott Wood
2007-02-07 23:01 ` [PATCH 06/19] bootwrapper: Make ft_get_phandle() accept and return NULL Scott Wood
2007-02-07 23:01 ` [PATCH 07/19] bootwrapper: Preserve the pp pointer in ft_make_space() when calling ft_reorder() Scott Wood
2007-02-07 23:01 ` [PATCH 08/19] bootwrapper: Modify *pp, not *p, in ft_shuffle() Scott Wood
2007-02-07 23:01 ` [PATCH 09/19] bootwrapper: Rename p and pp to anchor and anchorptr Scott Wood
2007-02-07 23:01 ` [PATCH 10/19] bootwrapper: Use map_string() instead of lookup_string() in ft_prop() Scott Wood
2007-02-07 23:01 ` [PATCH 11/19] bootwrapper: Add ft_find_device_rel() Scott Wood
2007-02-08 1:11 ` David Gibson
2007-02-08 17:14 ` Scott Wood
2007-02-07 23:01 ` [PATCH 12/19] bootwrapper: Refactor ft_get_prop() into internal and external functions Scott Wood
2007-02-07 23:01 ` [PATCH 13/19] bootwrapper: Make ft_get_parent() return a phandle, and NULL if already top-level Scott Wood
2007-02-07 23:01 ` [PATCH 14/19] bootwrapper: Add ft_find_node_by_prop_value() Scott Wood
2007-02-07 23:01 ` [PATCH 15/19] bootwrapper: Add initrd information to the device tree in ft_finalize() Scott Wood
2007-02-09 23:02 ` Mark A. Greer
2007-02-10 0:37 ` David Gibson
2007-02-12 16:42 ` Scott Wood
2007-02-13 4:29 ` David Gibson
2007-02-13 16:07 ` Scott Wood
2007-02-14 4:43 ` David Gibson
2007-02-07 23:01 ` [PATCH 16/19] bootwrapper: Make ft_create_node() pay attention to the parent parameter Scott Wood
2007-02-07 23:01 ` [PATCH 17/19] bootwrapper: Add dt_ops methods Scott Wood
2007-02-09 23:05 ` Mark A. Greer
2007-02-07 23:01 ` [PATCH 18/19] bootwrapper: Add xlate_reg(), and use it to find serial registers Scott Wood
2007-02-09 23:07 ` Mark A. Greer
2007-02-12 16:45 ` Scott Wood
2007-02-12 21:10 ` Josh Boyer
2007-02-13 4:30 ` David Gibson
2007-02-13 16:00 ` Scott Wood
2007-02-07 23:01 ` [PATCH 19/19] bootwrapper: compatibility layer for old U-Boots (a.k.a. cuImage, cuboot) Scott Wood
2007-02-08 21:15 ` David Gibson [this message]
2007-02-09 17:11 ` Scott Wood
2007-02-10 1:02 ` David Gibson
2007-02-12 16:52 ` Scott Wood
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-02-12 20:54 Scott Wood
2007-02-12 21:38 ` Geoff Levand
2007-02-13 16:13 ` Scott Wood
2007-02-13 17:32 ` Geoff Levand
2007-02-18 0:22 ` David Gibson
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