From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-out.m-online.net (mail-out.m-online.net [212.18.0.10]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB961DDDFF for ; Sun, 5 Apr 2009 22:03:53 +1000 (EST) To: Yigal Goldberger From: Wolfgang Denk Subject: Re: booting Kernel 2.6.24.2 with u-boot 1.1.2 Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-reply-to: <673522.16603.qm@web38902.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <673522.16603.qm@web38902.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:03:50 +0200 Message-Id: <20090405120350.5041F83797DC@gemini.denx.de> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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 -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@denx.de How can you tell when sour cream goes bad?