[ELDK] FDT Fattenned Device tree for kilauea

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Sylvain,

In message <1E2B849CC9AB394DBEC29714EBD02F503C22DC at mtlms3.Co.Corp.VerintSystems.com> you wrote:
> 
> I am working on on the Kilauea eval board (in fact is daughter Haleakala
>  eval board with 405exr).  I am using the denx 4.2 ELDK with kernel 2.6.24
>  and uBoot 1.3.0.  I want to know if the flattened device tree blob is
>  needed with this configuration?  If yes, what could be the impact to not
>  have it during boot process?

The old 2.6.24 kernel tree supports the  Kilauea  board  both  in  an
(old,   deprecated)  arch/ppc  configuration  (which  does  not  know
anything about device trees and thus needs none), and in  the  newer,
recommended arch/powerpc configuration which needs a device tree.

When a device tree is needed but not provided, Linux will  just  hang
when  you  are trying to boot, usually without even printing a single
character to the console.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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