[U-Boot] U-boot SPL direct Linux boot

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Mon Jul 4 08:34:55 CEST 2011


On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Simon Schwarz
<simonschwarzcor at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Addition: As I read a bit about FDT it does not replace ATAGS
> (http://elinux.org/Device_Trees) - it is more a supplement to it. So
> it would not harm to implement minimal ATAGS support and later add the
> FDT to it.

That was true in an early prototype, but it is not actually true
anymore.  Passing a DT replaces ATAGs on arm now, and that code is in
mainline.

>
> I started a prototype for ATAGS creation by modifying bootm.c - which
> seems (so long) not be too hard. If this works and doesn't add too
> much overhead FDT support is not that much a problem IMHO.
>
> Regards
> Simon
>
> (Sorry Detlev for the repost - forgot the ML...)
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