From: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@genband.com>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: recommended method of netbooting kernel/dtb in u-boot?
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 09:44:09 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5166DA49.5000907@genband.com> (raw)
Hi all,
We've got a powerpc system that uses u-boot. In our environment on
bootup u-boot does a DHCP to get networking info, then uses TFTP to get
the kernel, which then does DHCP again and NFS-mounts the initial root
filesystem.
What's the standard practice for this sort of thing when using device
tree blobs? Do most people use multi-file images or do they TFTP
scripts to load and execute separate kernel/dtb files?
For multi-part images is there an in-kernel way of generating a file
containing a kernel and dtb combined? I saw a patch proposed in 2008 to
add a uImage.<dt> build target but it was shot down because it used the
legacy multi-file format. Is there an equivalent build target that uses
the FIT format?
Chris
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next reply other threads:[~2013-04-11 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-11 15:44 Chris Friesen [this message]
2013-04-11 18:12 ` recommended method of netbooting kernel/dtb in u-boot? Kumar Gala
2013-04-11 18:39 ` Chris Friesen
2013-04-11 19:50 ` Ira W. Snyder
2013-04-11 19:59 ` Chris Friesen
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