On 13 Sep 2012 20:40, "Stephen Warren" <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
>
> On 09/13/2012 10:32 AM, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > So as distros we are soon going to be forced to support DTB files.
> > Fedora likely sooner than the rest as we closely follow the
> > mainline kernel throughout the life of a fedora release. Ideally
> > the device manufacturers will provide dtb files. but then devices
> > like the pandaboard, beagleboardXM etc with no storage to speak of
> > we have to ship u-boot so likely will need to ship dtb files also.
> > so far the best
>
> At this stage in ARM development, the source of .dtb files is
> generally the kernel build. Shipping U-Boot+DTB and kernel rather than
> U-Boot and kernel+dtb is probably not going to work out very well.

Could you elaborate why?

> > vendor i know of for dtb support is calxeda. and thats where we
> > should encourage vendors to emulate, but until we get to there we
> > need to take baby steps.
>
> For the rest of us, can you please describe what Calxeda is doing, so
> we know what to emulate?

Their uboot supplies the dtb so you don't need to append it to the kernel, I'm sure they the best to go into all the tech details.

Peter

> Thanks.
>
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