On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Loïc Minier wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011, James Westby wrote:
> >   fdt
> > 
> > What would we do with this if we found it in a hwpack?
> 
>  I don't know; I need more handson experience with DT to tell.  It might
>  be that we don't need this this cycle because the DT will be embedded
>  in the zImage.  Otherwise, we'd have to mkimage it along uImage and
>  uInitrd, probably in a uFdt or something like that, and then change the
>  boot script to pass it to the kernel.

I'd prefer if we could keep the kernel and fdt images separate as much 
as possible.  In theory, the fdt should be updated far less often than 
the kernel.  If we really need to bundle the kernel and fdt together 
then there is generic support for that in the kernel build system 
already.


Nicolas
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