FT u-boot shim

Paul Mackerras paulus at samba.org
Sat Apr 29 09:35:18 EST 2006


Wolfgang Denk writes:

> > 2. using a u-boot that is ft aware + dtb (boot command in u-boot  
> > takes kernel & dtb images, updates blob and passes to kernel)
> > 3. using a u-boot that is ft aware + built in dtb.
> > 
> > The issue is that for a given system/board you may need to support  
> > multiple or all three.  This raises the question where does the .dts  
> 
> Assuming we had 2., under which circumstances would we need 3. then?

I imagine 3. would be more convenient for users than 2., or at least
it would seem to mean less typing for them.

Paul.



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