How to move from /ppc/ to /powerpc/

Jon Loeliger jdl at freescale.com
Wed Sep 13 02:03:50 EST 2006


On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 10:58, Kim Phillips wrote:

> > I boot the board with U-Boot (version 1.1.4, customized), and I assume
> > that I need to add some stuff for this new device tree thing, but I
> > can't figure out exactly what the kernel will expect.
> 
> the kernel expects a pointer to a device tree instead of a bd_t.
> The 8349EMDS device tree source is now in linux/arch/powerpc/boot/dts.
> You'll need the device tree compiler (dtc) from jdl.com to build
> your flat device tree binary (dtb; what the kernel expects).

And you should read:

    linux-2.6/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt

jdl





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