On Apr 27, 2006, at 2:45 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
In message <2CD98C5D- E51C-49CA-9BDC-6FE4C1B67854@kernel.crashing.org> you wrote:
We can do this w/o too much modification to what is happening in u- boot today. I'd probably like to keep the ability to build a dev tree into the u-boot binary, but make the preferred means to pass a
I don't like this, as it's a very Linux-centric view, but U-Boot is supposed to be OS unaware and independent.
Hmm, I guess. There really isn't anything about the device tree that is Linux specific. Other OSes could choice to use it. But lets argue about that one once I've got the mechanism in which we pass the blob in via the bootm command.
The only difference I see would be that the address of the blob would be implicit if the blob was built into u-boot. We would still use a passed in blob via the bootm command if given.
- kumar