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Re: Flattened Device Tree on SheevaPlug and Linux 3.15



On 24/06/2014 14:51, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 14:21 +0200, drEagle wrote:
>>> What about the uboots fdt commands [1] ?
> 
> AFAIK that's mostly about modifying an in memory FDT, but it doesn't
> actual deal with passing it to the kernel, which is done by passing the
> address as the third argument to bootm or bootz.

It's more simple that I was thinking.

>>> Don't you need to tell uboot to use fdt ?
> 
> You need to tell it to pass it to the kernel as above, yes. But for most
> platforms u-boot itself doesn't use (i.e. consume for its own hardware
> detection purposes) the fdt apart from that.

Thanks for the information.


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