Thanks for all your excellent explanations! * Ian Campbell <i...@hellion.org.uk> [2012-04-05 23:06]: > I guess upstream is forcing all new board ports to use DT, which will > certainly be a pain for boards with a non DT bootloader.
Yes, that's exactly the kind of devices I have in mind. > > Also, does it really say "Machine: Marvell Kirkwood (Flattened Device > > Tree)"? > > Yes, it really does say that. I thought it was weird too but grepping > around in arch/arm it seems to be a fairly common structure (although > things aren't all that consistent) Ok... but so how do you know which board you're running on? What I'm wondering is about the following scenario: We support multiple devices. Let's say we support the following two: - Dreamplug: which has u-boot support for DT. - Some random NAS device which has a u-boot that is not DT capable, so you have to add the DT blob to the kernel. Obbiously, flash-kernel has to do two different things: - For the Dreamplug we just need to convert the kernel/ramdisk to a uImage/uInitrd for u-boot. - For the random NAS, we also have to copy the DT blob to the kernel image. I'm not sure how his can be done if the Machine: string for both devices says "Marvell Kirkwood (Flattened Device Tree)". -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120405223341.ga7...@jirafa.cyrius.com
