On Thursday, September 01, 2011 16:49:05 Simon Glass wrote: > At present in U-Boot configuration is mostly done using CONFIG options in > the board file. This patch set aims to make it possible for a single > U-Boot binary to support multiple boards, with the exact configuration of > each board controlled by a flat device tree (fdt). This is the approach > recently taken by the ARM Linux kernel and has been used by PowerPC for > some time. > > The fdt is a convenient vehicle for implementing run-time configuration for > three reasons. Firstly it is easy to use, being a simple text file. It is > extensible since it consists of nodes and properties in a nice hierarchical > format. > > Finally, there is already excellent infrastructure for the fdt: a compiler > checks the text file and converts it to a compact binary format, and a > library is already available in U-Boot (libfdt) for handling this format.
i guess the important questions for u-boot: size and speed. have you done any comparisons in this area ? -mike
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