From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org,
Sean MacLennan <smaclennan@pikatech.com>
Subject: Re: arch/powerpc/boot/.gitignore questions
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:52:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48C8339F.1080906@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080910204923.D06D7248A6@gemini.denx.de>
Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Sean MacLennan,
>
> In message <20080910164046.4813753b@wally.pikatech.com> you wrote:
>> I believe if the dts is built into u-boot, the dtc is not built.
>
> This is never the case. The device tree is considered to be part of
> and provided to the boot loader by the kernel.
No, it's provided to the kernel by the firmware. That the repository
for the files that the user provides to u-boot for this purpose happens
to live in the Linux source tree is irrelevant.
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-10 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-10 19:24 arch/powerpc/boot/.gitignore questions Randy Dunlap
2008-09-10 20:40 ` Sean MacLennan
2008-09-10 20:49 ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-09-10 20:52 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2008-09-10 21:37 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-09-10 21:44 ` Scott Wood
2008-09-10 21:48 ` Randy Dunlap
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