[U-Boot] u-boot 1.1.2 boot latest powerpc based kernel?

[Shawn Jin]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Timur Tabi <timur at freescale.com> wrote:
> The only way to find out for sure is to test it.  You'll probably need
> to enable cuImage support in the kernel, at the very least.  No one
> keeps track of whether newer kernels work with older U-Boots, so
> there's no way to know in advance whether a specific kernel and a
> specific device tree and a specific (older) U-Boot will work together.

Thanks for the comments.

However my concern is specific to the powerpc arch. If I understand
correctly, the powerpc arch expects a bootloader provide a DTS file.
I'm not sure how the current U-Boot transfers such info to the
kernerl. People here can shed some light on this? I'm certain the old
U-Boot (e.g. 1.1.2) doesn't have this kind of capability. The bd_info
is still one of data transferred to the kernel, right? How does
bd_info work with the DTS info?

Thanks,
-Shawn.