From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Vinayak Kale <vinayak.kale@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: DTS for PowerPC 440 based board
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:32:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fa686aa40911221932v306dd8b5v16434e7e0a1d6ff5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091121212047.GA29715@yookeroo>
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 2:20 PM, David Gibson
<david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 12:16:59AM +0530, Vinayak Kale wrote:
>> 2) If uboot passes BDInfo struct to kernel instead of DT blob, then in t=
his
>> case does kernel creates FDT at run time?
>
> Not exactly. =A0In this case the bootwrapper will be built with an FDT
> (compiled from a dts) built in. =A0It will however tweak the FDT with
> information from the BDInfo before booting the kernel proper.
...but if you have any sort of choice, save yourself some trouble and
enable FDT support in u-boot. Then you don't need to muck about with
problematic bd_info structures.
g.
--=20
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-23 3:32 UTC|newest]
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2009-11-21 18:46 DTS for PowerPC 440 based board Vinayak Kale
2009-11-21 21:20 ` David Gibson
2009-11-23 3:32 ` Grant Likely [this message]
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