From: Ivan Gorinov <ivan.gorinov@intel.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2] x86: zImage: pass device tree setup data to the kernel
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 17:16:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1521245773.1851.18.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1521222757.23017.34.camel@linux.intel.com>
On Fri, 2018-03-16 at 19:52 +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On x86 platforms, U-Boot does not provide Device Tree data to the
> > kernel.
> > This prevents the kernel from using the same hardware description.
> >
> > Make a copy of DTB data with setup_data header and insert new item
> > into the the setup data linked list.
> So, now is the question, what to do with x86 hardware that has DTS in U-
> Boot, but uses ACPI tables, generated by U-Boot.
>
> Would it work properly?
It will work because CONFIG_OF is disabled in most x86 kernel configurations.
> I would try to test it on Intel Edison (I hope you may do this yourself
> as well), though I don't know when, have not much time to work with
> Edison right now.
I am going to try that on a Minnowboard.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-17 0:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-16 17:38 [U-Boot] [PATCH v2] x86: zImage: pass device tree setup data to the kernel Ivan Gorinov
2018-03-16 17:52 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-03-16 17:55 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-03-17 0:16 ` Ivan Gorinov [this message]
2018-03-19 9:19 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-03-16 19:40 ` Simon Glass
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