On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
Dear Robert,
In message alpine.DEB.2.02.1112050701340.21244@oneiric you wrote:
No. Now you don't need a cuImage nay more. Just use the DT as I showed you in the builkd and boot log I sent before.
for the sake of clarification, you write that i don't *need* cuImages anymore, but that's not the same as saying that i *must* move to using device trees. in fact, a cuImage file still works just fine
True, you don't have to use the DT. You don't have to use the most straightforward way that has been well tested for a ton of combinations of recent U-Boot releases against recent kernel releases.
You are free to chose any untested, unsupported way you like.
It's perfectly fine to ignore all good advice you get here. But eventually you should then also stop asking further questions here.
please stop being so defensive, wolfgang, it doesn't become you. i have no doubt that using a separate device tree is a better idea. but i also like to be very careful with my terminology.
if someone says using a device tree is better, i'm fine with that. but an earlier claim of yours seemed to suggest that one *needed* to use a DT, and if that's the case, i just want to know that. i simply like to know what my options are in case Plan A doesn't work, i can try Plan B.
also, i was *given* material to work with, and i'm making an effort to change as little of it as possible if i don't have to, at the request of the person who gave it to me. and sometimes, political reasons might trump technical reasons, as much as we don't want them to.
rday