On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 12:16:59AM +0530, Vinayak Kale wrote:
> Hi,
> I am porting 2.6.31 for a PowerPC 440 core based board. I have couple of
> queries. I would really appreciate if someone could answer since i couldn't
> find info from other places.
>
> 1) Is it mandatory to create a DTS file?
Roughly speaking, yes. You have to supply a device tree to the
kernel somehow, so if the firmware doesn't supply one itself, you will
need to create a DTS.
> 2) If uboot passes BDInfo struct to kernel instead of DT blob, then in this
> case does kernel creates FDT at run time?
Not exactly. In this case the bootwrapper will be built with an FDT
(compiled from a dts) built in. It will however tweak the FDT with
information from the BDInfo before booting the kernel proper.
> 3) I believe in case of DTS, the kernel picks up the h/w info from DTS blob
> so we need not hardcode any register addresses etc inside kernel other than
> in dts file. What happens in case of uboot passing just BDInfo struct. How
> do we specify the register addresses etc?
There's always a device tree which specifies register addresses. If
the firmware only supplies a BDInfo, then the kernel wrapper must have
a device tree built in. In practice that will always be built from a
dts, though it doesn't have to be in theory.
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