Subject: Device tree.

From: [email-masked] (Rob Herring)
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 08:52:34 -0500

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.

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

Rob