[U-Boot] [PATCH 8/9] mpc8641: Change 32-bit memory map

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Thu Nov 6 23:26:30 CET 2008


Becky Bruce wrote:
> On Nov 6, 2008, at 4:16 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
>> How about a runtime check in the board fdt code to print a warning if 
>> it finds an old device tree?  Unfortunately, using new dts with old 
>> u-boot isn't as easy to detect.
> 
> Where exactly were you thinking this would go? 

ft_board_setup()

> I'm not sure what to 
> detect - I could pretty easily do a rudimentary check, like checking if 
> the CCSR location in the .dts is the same as the one u-boot has, but 
> there's always the possiblity that someone has hacked their u-boot to 
> put the CCSR in the same spot.

Well then they can hack the warning out. :-)

-Scott


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