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From: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V7 2/4] MIPS: Add board support for Loongson1B
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:18:16 +0200
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On Thursday 21 June 2012 15:34:54 Kelvin Cheung wrote:
> 2012/6/21 Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
[snip]
> >
> > And the final plug - take a look at FDT for a future revision of this
> > code :)
> >
> >
> Yes, I am aware that the FDT is the final target.
> But PMON which is the bootloader of Loongson CPU does not support FDT at
> present.
> I will remember this.

Your bootloader does not need to support FDT, as long as you can provide a FDT 
by other means, such as appending a FDT at the end of your kernel.
--
Florian