Appended devicetree with Torvalds' HEAD

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Fri Sep 9 07:46:12 EST 2011


On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre at linaro.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Sep 2011, Linus Walleij wrote:
>>
>> Is there a particular reason why we want to append the
>> device tree to the zImage rather than to vmlinux?
>
> So this ability to simply append the DTB to a zImage is just a
> convenience to accommodate legacy bootloaders.  It should _not_ become
> the primary way of providing a DTB to the kernel.

I understand this, however this one legacy bootloader for U300
does not support compressed images, just plain vmlinux.

I intended to use it for some cross-testing of the append patches
since they wouldn't work for me on other hardware.

I'll just drop that attempt, no big deal.

Thanks,
Linus Walleij


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