[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH v2 2/6] fdt: Add support for embedded device tree (CONFIG_OF_EMBED)

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Wed Sep 14 23:09:59 CEST 2011


On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
> Dear Grant Likely,
>
> In message <20110914164528.GM3134 at ponder.secretlab.ca> you wrote:
>>
>> May I suggest an alternate approach?  Rather than hard linking the dtb
>> into the u-boot image, this would be so much more useful if the dtb
>> can be concatenated to the u-boot binary so that it can be configured
>> at install time.  Otherwise, switching to .dtb doesn't seem to
>
> Actually the DTB address should _always_ be taken from an environment
> variable, so we have full flexibility.

That doesn't work so well when u-boot needs the dtb to initialize
itself.  However, once initialized, I completely agree that the dtb
address should be in the env so that it can be changed as needed.

g.


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