[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Add Flat OF tree support.

[Pantelis Antoniou]

On Thursday 13 October 2005 02:52, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <200509041336.52311.pantelis.antoniou at gmail.com> you wrote:
> ...
> > * Support passing of OF flat trees to the kernel.
> >   Specific support for the STXtc.
> >   Patch by Pantelis Antoniou, 04 Sep 2005
> 
> Added, thanks.
> 
> Note 1: can you please submit a new patch to add a show doc/README.OFT
>         or so which explains where the required dtc tool can be found?
> 

Here you go.

> Note 2: you owe Stefan Roese a beer or two.
>

Only one? I was thinking of a case :).

> Best regards,
> 
> Wolfgang Denk
> 

Regards

Pantelis
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Added a small doc file for pointing out where the tools for OF tree support
are located.

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commit a014911ad67dfcdd40b5258be8fe666bc13930c0
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parent 0cdd3d61b6489a8a25cd07e256072b6581200871
author Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou at gmail.com> Thu, 13 Oct 2005 08:30:11 +0300
committer Pantelis Antoniou <pantelins.antoniou at gmail.com> Thu, 13 Oct 2005 08:30:11 +0300

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+Open Firmware Flat Tree and usage.
+----------------------------------
+
+As part of the ongoing cleanup of the linux PPC trees, the preferred
+way to pass bootloader and board setup information is the open
+firmware flat tree.
+
+Please take a look at the following email discussion for some 
+background.
+
+  http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-August/019408.html
+  http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-August/019362.html
+
+The generated tree is part static and part dynamic.
+
+There is a static part which is compiled in with DTC and a dynamic
+part which is programmatically appended.
+
+You'll need a fairly recent DTC tool, which is available by git at.
+
+  rsync://ozlabs.org/dtc/dtc.git
+
+The xxd binary dumper is needed too which I got from
+
+  ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/utilities/etc/xxd-1.10.tar.gz
+