[U-Boot-Users] RFC: Booting the Linux/ppc64 kernel without Open Firmware HOWTO

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Fri May 20 09:20:43 EST 2005


In message <1116541993.5153.22.camel at gaston> you wrote:
> 
> > Yes, small *is* beautiful.
> 
> Did you read the "optional" above ? Let me repeat _AGAIN_ here: the
> bootloader doesn't _need_ ANY code to deal with the device-tree if you
> decide to just build the blob once for all, and embed it "as is".

And the blob has a zero memory footprint or what?

> Face it, there will NOT be any other way that will be accepted upstream
> to boot a ppc64 kernel.

Then let's just stop here.  We're  just  wasting  time  if  there  is
nothing to discuss any more.


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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