Could the DTS experts look at this?

[Grant Likely]

On Feb 12, 2008 4:35 PM, David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> In fact, in one way of looking at it that's always what happens: the
> dtb format is defined for passing hardware information from the
> bootloader to the kernel; nothing else.  Passing a dtb *into* the
> bootloader is just a bootloader implementation convenience, because
> the possible variations on an output tree are small, so it's useful to
> have a skeleton tree built-in.  But in order for the bootloader to
> process those variations correctly, the skeleton *must* be in the
> right format.  dtb input to a bootloader must match the bootloaders
> expectations.  This has always been true, and will continue to be
> true.

Well said.

g.

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Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.