Your kernel patches for the Marvell Mirabox

Jason Cooper jason at lakedaemon.net
Mon Dec 10 11:42:38 EST 2012


On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 04:27:29PM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Jason Cooper,
> 
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:02:02 -0500, Jason Cooper wrote:
> 
> > In u-boot you'll need to change the boardid environment variable to
> > 0xffffffff, which needs to be in unsigned integer notation, 4294967295.
> 
> I'm not sure this is strictly necessary. I've never done that on any
> Marvell U-Boot's and I'm happily booting DT-only kernels.

Yeah, I know it helped the topkick boot up.  I probably needed this for
kirkwood_defconfig, which includes support for legacy boards.
mvebu_defconfig wouldn't need it then, since everything in mvebu is DT.
Thanks for clarifying the point.

hth,

Jason.



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