[U-Boot] Is there any full story about how to take advantage FDT function ?

Gao Ya'nan abutter.gao at gmail.com
Thu Sep 10 00:37:14 CEST 2009


2009/9/10 Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com>:
> Gao Ya'nan wrote:
>>
>> 2009/9/10 Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com>:
>>>
>>> On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 02:41:19PM -0400, Jerry Van Baren wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm not up on 8xx, but it may not have been pulled forward into the
>>>> "powerpc" architecture (still "ppc").  The "powerpc" architecture switch
>>>> is where linux/u-boot started using the FDT.
>>>
>>> 8xx is supported in arch/powerpc.
>>
>> Yes, I have add CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT and CONFIG_OF_BOARD_SETUP for the FDT
>> support which is missing in U-Boot-v2009.08, and it works well, but I
>> found none complete document on how to write a dts file and add
>> special device in it.
>>
>> Any tips? Thanks
>
> See Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt,
> Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings, and the ePAPR specification for
> information on the content of device trees.

I miss the later two, thanks for your tips.

Gao.

>
> -Scott
>


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