From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from hs-out-0708.google.com (hs-out-0708.google.com [64.233.178.243]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE8D2DDF17 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:10:49 +1100 (EST) Received: by hs-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id x43so432815hsb.9 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:10:48 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:10:47 -0700 From: "Grant Likely" Sender: glikely@secretlab.ca To: "Timur Tabi" , "Grant Likely" , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, "Arnd Bergmann" Subject: Re: Could the DTS experts look at this? In-Reply-To: <20080212233548.GE21230@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <47ACE630.8090101@pikatech.com> <20080211235409.GB18348@localhost.localdomain> <20080211235652.GC18348@localhost.localdomain> <200802120121.45349.arnd@arndb.de> <47B1BEE7.4050808@freescale.com> <47B1EEA8.4040904@freescale.com> <47B1F763.9000404@freescale.com> <20080212233548.GE21230@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Feb 12, 2008 4:35 PM, David Gibson wrote: > In fact, in one way of looking at it that's always what happens: the > dtb format is defined for passing hardware information from the > bootloader to the kernel; nothing else. Passing a dtb *into* the > bootloader is just a bootloader implementation convenience, because > the possible variations on an output tree are small, so it's useful to > have a skeleton tree built-in. But in order for the bootloader to > process those variations correctly, the skeleton *must* be in the > right format. dtb input to a bootloader must match the bootloaders > expectations. This has always been true, and will continue to be > true. Well said. g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.