[U-Boot-Users] Re: 答复: [U-Boot-Users] HELP: How to make PPC booting easier

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <f8328f7c0802021958l7ae8df4dyd30a3f1b894cc280 at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> I'm very, very far from being a device tree expert and am not up to
> date on the wonderful FDT work that Jerry Van Baren and friends have
> worked on over the last several months.  AFAIK, there's no way around
> having the kernel and device tree as separate images.  If both truly

Actually you should be able to use a (classic) multi-file image,
although I have to commit that I haven't tested this for a long time.

Or, you can wait until the new image format gets merged in the next
version of U-Boot (patches have been posted, you are welcome to give
them a try).

> need to be dynamic, of course you're going to have to download both
> each time.  You can certainly minimize the amount of human interaction
> by scripting U-boot to automatically TFTP the blobs to pre-defined
> addresses and then boot from there.

right. You just have to type the commands once and save them as an
environment variable which you can then "run".

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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