[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 4/6] fdt: ARM: Implement embedded and separate device tree

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Sat Oct 15 17:15:16 CEST 2011


Hi Stephen,

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com> wrote:
> Simon Glass wrote at Tuesday, October 11, 2011 4:26 PM:
>> This locates the device tree either embedded within U-Boot or attached to the
>> end as a separate binary.
>>
>> When CONFIG_OF_CONTROL is defined, U-Boot requires a valid fdt. A check is
>> provided for this early in initialisation.
>
> The subject of this patch seems a little misleading; something more like
> "fdt: ARM: Check that a control fdt is present" would be more accurate.

It does also implement it. Before this, there is no code to find the
device tree on ARM. But yes it also checks that it gets something
valid. I will change the name to something like 'fdt: ARM: Implement
and verify embedded and separate device tree'

>
> Sorry for the trivial comments!

Thanks for looking at it.

Regards,
Simon

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