On Feb 12, 2008 4:35 PM, David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In fact, in one way of looking at it that's always what happens: the > dtb format is defined for passing hardware information from the > bootloader to the kernel; nothing else. Passing a dtb *into* the > bootloader is just a bootloader implementation convenience, because > the possible variations on an output tree are small, so it's useful to > have a skeleton tree built-in. But in order for the bootloader to > process those variations correctly, the skeleton *must* be in the > right format. dtb input to a bootloader must match the bootloaders > expectations. This has always been true, and will continue to be > true.
Well said. g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
