[PATCH 3/3] [POWERPC] Kilauea DTS

David Gibson dwg at au1.ibm.com
Fri Oct 12 13:15:54 EST 2007


On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 07:13:39AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 14:02 +0200, Stefan Roese wrote:
> > On Thursday 11 October 2007, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 10:49 +0200, Stefan Roese wrote:
> > > > > > +		PowerPC,405EX at 0 {
> > > > > > +			device_type = "cpu";
> > > > > > +			reg = <0>;
> > > > > > +			clock-frequency = <0>; /* Filled in by U-Boot */
> > > > >
> > > > > Filled in by U-Boot itself?  Or by a cuboot wrapper? (which I can't
> > > > > find in the patches.)
> > > >
> > > > By U-Boot itself. I have a U-Boot patch in the queue to add device tree
> > > > support for 4xx. Therefor I don't plan adding a cuboot wrapper for
> > > > Kilauea.
> > >
> > > Very cool!
> > 
> > You can take a look at the kilauea-405ex branch of my 4xx custodian repository 
> > for a latest development snapshort:
> > 
> > http://www.denx.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=u-boot/u-boot-ppc4xx.git;a=shortlog;h=kilauea-405ex
> 
> Ok, so how does the DTS file from the kernel get to U-Boot?  Since there
> is no defconfig provided and no wrapper bits, I'm assuming this port
> takes a raw uImage.  Is that correct?  If so, do you expect a separate
> DTB file to be built for this that is passed to U-Boot?

I believe current standard practice is to bulid dtb aware u-boot
images by pointing at dts files from the kernel tree.  u-boot doesn't
have it's own repository of dts files.

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