[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 3/3] image: Allow images to indicate they're loadable at any address

[Stephen Warren]

On 12/10/2011 03:42 PM, Linus Walleij wrote:
...
> Since this was so convenient I made a patch to attach a DTB
> the same way which was floated on devicetree-discuss:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org/msg07256.html
> 
> Nico didn't like that:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org/msg06828.html
> 
> Alas, I'm still using that patch though. For systems where I cannot
> influence the boot loader it's easiest, since I just add another
> config snippet when I want to run them with DT:
> 
> scripts/config --file .config \
>         --enable USE_OF \
>         --enable ARM_APPENDED_DTB \
>         --enable ARM_ATAG_DTB_COMPAT \
>         --enable PROC_DEVICETREE \
>         --set-str ARM_APPENDED_DTB_FILE my-device-tree.dtb

Jut as an FYI, there's also:

git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6 devicetree/test
fbae2702ae21ad8d1de5f135647c30b250782060 "Build a uImage with dtb
already appended".

I tend to use this all the time for device-tree.

I find this significantly easier than using U-Boot's
pass-an-FDT-to-the-kernel feature, because right now half the time I'm
passing an FDT and half not, and making U-Boot's script support either
option automatically isn't something I really want to get into when I
can simply "make uImage" or "make uImage-dtb.tegra-${board}" to select
which option I want when building the kernel.

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