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From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/10] bootwrapper: Add a firmware-independent "raw"
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On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 02:21:16PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> This target produces a flat binary rather than an ELF file,
> fixes the entry point at the beginning of the image, and takes
> a complete device tree with no fixups needed.
> 
> The device tree must have labels on /#address-cells, the timebase
> frequency, and the memory size.

Hrm... the actual contents of this patch are less about producing an
unheadered binary image than they are about introducing the "raw"
platform.  I don't mind the idea of a "raw" platform (although I'm not
sure I like that name for it), but the patch comment needs work.

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