From: "Grant Likely" <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
To: "David H. Lynch Jr." <dhlii@picocomputing.net>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded <linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: simpleboot
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:49:01 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fa686aa40804231149j344a4cc5iaf15ac12828146f7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <480F8148.8090906@picocomputing.net>
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:34 PM, David H. Lynch Jr.
<dhlii@picocomputing.net> wrote:
> I am trying to decipher hot to use the simpleboot devicetree wrapper
> and I am not grasping the process.
>
> I need an initramfs kernel, inside an elf wrapper.
> right now I get that pretty much for free.
>
> How do ask for a simpleboot wrapper kernel ?
> It is a target for a makefile in arch/powerpc/boot how to I cause
> that target to get invoked
>
> How does it choose the device tree to wrap ?
>
> How does it interact with things like initramfs ?
make simpleImage.<boardname>
- or -
make simpleImage.initrd.<boardname>
The makefile will use arch/powerpc/boot/dts/<boardname>.dts for the device tree.
Cheers,
g.
--
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-23 18:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-23 18:34 simpleboot David H. Lynch Jr.
2008-04-23 18:49 ` Grant Likely [this message]
2008-04-23 19:43 ` simpleboot David H. Lynch Jr.
2008-04-23 19:48 ` simpleboot Grant Likely
2008-04-24 1:50 ` simpleboot David H. Lynch Jr.
2008-04-24 1:09 ` simpleboot Josh Boyer
2008-04-24 2:02 ` simpleboot David H. Lynch Jr.
2008-04-24 3:08 ` simpleboot Josh Boyer
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