[U-Boot-Users] using a flat device tree to drive u-boot config

Timur Tabi timur at freescale.com
Sun Aug 3 22:08:45 CEST 2008


On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca> wrote:

> Better to just not depend on the DTB at all for basic operation.  ie.
> don't brick the board if the DTB is unavailable.

Is it even possible to have a "recovery mode U-Boot" that is not tied
to the specific board it's built for?  Either U-Boot is reliable, or
it's generic (i.e. uses the DTB for configuration).  I just don't see
how it can be both.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale




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