[U-Boot-Users] dtc n00bie - Flat device Tree nightmare

[Jon Loeliger]

On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 10:54, Richard Parsons wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have the MPC8323EMDS board and trying to get the FDT working - well
> trying to understand it.
> 
> After all the loading, u-boot gives the error and then resets.
> 
> WARNING: could not set linux,stdout-path FDT_ERR_NOTFOUND
> 
> The mpc8323xemds config file show that this is linked to an /aliases
> somehow in the DTC. There is a #define CONFIG_STDOUT_VIA_ALIAS (close
> enough to the name) Where is this alaias set?
> 
> Can anyone Give me some pointers what to hit? 
> 
> Best Regards,
> Richard

The alias node is a semi-new node in the Device Tree
added to help locate some of the other standard nodes
via well known properties.  For an example, grep around
in the arch/powerpc/boot/dts directory of a modern kernel
tree.

HTH,
jdl