[PATCH 19/19] bootwrapper: compatibility layer for old U-Boots (a.k.a. cuImage, cuboot)
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Sat Feb 10 04:11:29 EST 2007
David Gibson wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 05:01:49PM -0600, Scott Wood wrote:
>
>>Add a bootwrapper platform (cuboot) that takes a bd_t from a legacy
>>U-Boot, and inserts data from it into a device tree which has been
>>compiled into the kernel. This should help ease the transition to
>>arch/powerpc in cases where U-Boot has not yet been updated to pass a
>>device tree, or where upgrading firmware isn't practical.
>>
>>The device trees currently in the kernel tree must have
>>/chosen/linux,stdout-path added to work with cuboot.
>>
>>The kernel command line, mac addresses, and various clocks will be filled
>>in based on the bd_t.
>
>
> You're still using config dependent stuff in here...
They come from platform files such as cuboot-83xx.c, not (directly) from
the kernel config.
-Scott
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