In message: <[email protected]> Gary Jennejohn <[email protected]> writes: : As an example of what I think Andrew was addressing, U-Boot can pass a : Flattened Device Tree to the Linux kernel. This basically allows a : Linux kernel to handle variants of a board without having to custom : compile Linux for each board. At the moment I think only powerpc-based : boards can be handled in this way.
In the kernel.org kernel, this is correct. There's a fairly mature set of patches for ARM that brings many of the newer ARM boards into the FDT picture. There's some very immature MIPS patches flowing around as well. Warner _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
