[PATCH] arm/dt: Fix babbage.dts memory node

Shawn Guo shawn.guo at freescale.com
Sun Apr 24 10:28:52 EST 2011


On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 04:39:15PM -0500, Zach Pfeffer wrote:
> On 22 April 2011 01:25, Shawn Guo <shawn.guo at linaro.org> wrote:
> > Without device_type property set as memory for the node, the generated
> > dtb can still work when it gets passed to kernel by u-boot, since
> > u-boot will fix it up.  But kernel will not boot due to that it fails
> > to parse the memory node, when the dtb is appended to kernel image as
> > it is.
> 
> I'm a little confused. The first part of the statement implies that
> the kernel will boot without the device_type property, but the second
> part of the statement says that the kernel won't boot.
> 
The second part is talking about using John Bonesio's patch to append
dtb to zImage like: 'cat zImage babbage.dtb > zImage_w_dtb'.

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Regards,
Shawn



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