Device tree.

[Ben Dooks]

On 17/07/2012 14:52, Rob Herring wrote:
> On 07/17/2012 08:25 AM, Ben Dooks wrote:
>> On 17/07/2012 14:07, Ian Molton wrote:
>>> On 17/07/12 13:32, Josh Coombs wrote:
>>>> make make target.dtb
>>>> cat arch/arm/boot/target.dtb  >> arch/arm/boot/zImage
>>>> make uImage
>>>
>>> Yick...
>>
>> How about adding a dts=<address> argument to the current
>> command line handling. If this is found, then the system
>> ignores the rest of the atags passed and uses the passed
>> address for the device-tree settings.
>>
>> This means in u-boot, you just need to load the .dts file
>> into place before booting the kernel.
>>
> You mean dtb...
>
> But no, we don't need a 3rd boot interface in the kernel. I don't see
> why cat + mkimage is too hard to run.

I suppose we can produce our own build-script

> Now that u-boot has direct support for zImage booting, I doubt 
> anything
> uImage building related will ever be accepted into the kernel.

Depends on u-boot, the one we have been supplied doesn't seem to
have any interest in booting zImages.

-- 
Ben