[PATCH 5/7] ARM: mxs: convert tx28 board to device tree

Shawn Guo shawn.guo at linaro.org
Wed Jul 18 09:39:57 EDT 2012


On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 09:00:24AM +0200, Lothar Waßmann wrote:
> > below.  But does that mean ethernet PHY does not work even on non-DT
> > kernel right now?
> > 
> Seems so.
> 
Have you got the chance to figure it out why it does not work on
non-DT kernel?

> > I'm not sure if you have your bootloader passes dtb to kernel or use
> > append-dtb approach.  In the later case, here are the brief
> > instructions.
> > 
> > - Enable CONFIG_ARM_APPENDED_DTB and CONFIG_ARM_ATAG_DTB_COMPAT
> > - Build kernel
> > - make ARCH=arm imx28-tx28.dtb
> > - cat arch/arm/boot/zImage arch/arm/boot/imx28-tx28.dtb > arch/arm/boot/zImage_dtb
> > - Boot zImage_dtb like you boot zImage as usual
> > 
> I'm using the appended DTB approach, and have done exactly this except
> for using uImage rather than zImage.
> 
So, got a chance to wrap the zImage_dtb into uImage and have the DT
kernel actually running?

Shawn




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