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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] Selecting from multiple device trees at runtime
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:12:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130107201240.52C9120DA7E@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50EB0D92.2020707@cumulusnetworks.com>

Dear Curt Brune,

In message <50EB0D92.2020707@cumulusnetworks.com> you wrote:
> 
> What I would love is to have a single multi-file uImage I could use on 
> all my platforms.  The idea is to introduce a new image type that is a 
> list of device tree blobs.

In addition to the file system based approach suggested by Stephen,
you should have a look into using FIT images (see doc/uImage.FIT/ ).
One of the reasons for creating these was to deal with situations
exactly as you describe...

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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Anyone who isn't confused here doesn't really know what's going on.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-01-07 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-07 18:01 [U-Boot] Selecting from multiple device trees at runtime Curt Brune
2013-01-07 18:36 ` Stephen Warren
2013-01-07 19:44   ` Curt Brune
2013-01-07 20:12 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2013-01-07 22:21   ` Curt Brune
2013-01-08  3:16     ` Simon Glass
2013-01-08 16:42       ` Stephen Warren
2013-01-08 16:51         ` Simon Glass
2013-01-08 17:37           ` Stephen Warren
2013-01-08 17:58             ` Simon Glass
2013-01-08 22:37               ` Stephen Warren
2013-01-08 22:47                 ` Simon Glass
2013-01-09  1:40                 ` Curt Brune

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