RFC: Rev 0.5 Booting the Linux/ppc kernel without Open Firmware

[Michael Neuling]

> dtc source code can be found at
> <http://ozlabs.org/~dgibson/dtc/dtc.tar.gz>
> 
> WARNING: This version is still in early development stage; the
> resulting device-tree "blobs" have not yet been validated with the
> kernel. 

This has been done now.  We added an insert blob option to the kexec
tools so that a blob generated with dtc could be used by a kernel
booted with kexec. See:

http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/fastboot/2005-October/002061.html

Mikey