booting Kernel 2.6.24.2 with u-boot 1.1.2

booting Kernel 2.6.24.2 with u-boot 1.1.2

[Yigal Goldberger]

Hi All,
I'm trying to upgrade my powerpc system from 2.6.14.7 to 2.6.24.2 .
I'm confused regarding the need to use a Flattened Device Tree, and not sure whether and how I should use it .Does u-boot 1.1.2 support it ?
(I migrated from ARCH=ppc to ARCH=powerpc) .
Best Regards,
Yigal Goldberger.


      

Re: booting Kernel 2.6.24.2 with u-boot 1.1.2

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Yigal Goldberger,

In message <673522.16603.qm@web38902.mail.mud.yahoo.com> you wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to upgrade my powerpc system from 2.6.14.7 to 2.6.24.2 .
> I'm confused regarding the need to use a Flattened Device Tree, and not sure whether and how I should use it .Does u-boot 1.1.2 support it ?
> (I migrated from ARCH=ppc to ARCH=powerpc) .

U-Boot 1.1.2 nows  absolutely  nothing  about  device  trees  yet.  I
recommend  to  update  to  current  code  - both for U-Boot and Linux
(Linux 2.6.24.2 is really old, too).

You probably can run a recent kernel on that old U-Boot version using
a cuImage, but it would be better to use current code.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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