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From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:32:04 -0700
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Subject: Re: DTS for PowerPC 440 based board
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
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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.

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Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.