FT u-boot shim

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Apr 26 07:42:47 EST 2006


On Apr 25, 2006, at 4:39 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

> In message <07A76292-03D1-4648- 
> AA40-11E06698FEE1 at kernel.crashing.org> you wrote:
>>
>>> Since U-Boot  does  not  need  nor  use  this  information  for   
>>> it's
>>> operation, but the kernel does, it should be part of the kernel.
>>
>> What about the case in which u-boot already has a .dts for a given
>> board?  Should we duplicate the files between the kernel & u-boot?
>
> No. Remove them from the U-Boot tree. I was never happy to  see  this
> stuff there.

Then why did you accept the patches for them?  I'm confused on what  
you see as the solution for how to boot an arch/powerpc kernel going  
forward.

- k




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