[PATCH 6/6] bootwrapper: cuboot for 83xx

Mark A. Greer mgreer at mvista.com
Thu Apr 5 02:01:26 EST 2007


On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 04:38:34PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 07:06:29PM -0700, Mark A. Greer wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 10:37:12AM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> > > On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 10:30:56AM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:

> > > Actually, to be clearer here: this reason actually degenerates to the
> > > first; I want the "ft_open" step to go after console_open so we can
> > > get error messages from it.
> > 
> > The problem is,  the console device is specified in the dt so you have
> > to ft_open before you console_open.
> 
> Sorry, I should clarify.  In the context of libfdt, I was thinking
> *read* access to the fdt can happen at any point - right from
> platform_init().  ft_open() would mark the point at which write access
> to the tree can begin.

Ah, okay.



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