[patch][rfc]flattened device tree: Passing a dtb (blob) to Linux.

Mark A. Greer mgreer at mvista.com
Fri Apr 21 06:20:47 EST 2006


On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 10:42:28AM -0500, Jon Loeliger wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 13:04, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> 
> > > OK, I'm back to reading the list and beginning to catch
> > > up some here...
> > > 
> > > Let me see if I understand the consensus and direction:
> > > 
> > >     1) DTC should NOT reserve its own blob space in the
> > >        memory map, as it does for generated ASM code now,
> 
> > > In all of this, I'm on deck for step 1) above.
> 
> I have updated the DTC to have several bug fixes:
> 
>     - asm_emit_cell() little endian bug fix
>     - use two .long and not .quad directives
>     - Eliminate emitting memreserve for blob in ASM output
> 
> These updates are available here:
> 
>     www.jdl.com/git_repos
> and
>     git://ozlabs.org/srv/projects/dtc/dtc.git
> 
> Please verify and let me know of any problems!

Hey John,

I did a quick test and the new dtc seems to work fine for my dts file.

Mark



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