DTS for PowerPC 440 based board
Grant Likely
grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Mon Nov 23 14:32:04 EST 2009
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 2:20 PM, David Gibson
<david at gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 12:16:59AM +0530, Vinayak Kale wrote:
>> 2) If uboot passes BDInfo struct to kernel instead of DT blob, then in this
>> case does kernel creates FDT at run time?
>
> Not exactly. In this case the bootwrapper will be built with an FDT
> (compiled from a dts) built in. It will however tweak the FDT with
> information from the BDInfo before booting the kernel proper.
...but if you have any sort of choice, save yourself some trouble and
enable FDT support in u-boot. Then you don't need to muck about with
problematic bd_info structures.
g.
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Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
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