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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