[U-Boot] [PATCH V4 4/5] ARM: OMAP4/5: Change the default boot command to work with device tree

Sricharan R r.sricharan at ti.com
Tue Apr 2 17:33:04 CEST 2013


Hi Tom,

On Tuesday 02 April 2013 12:50 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 09:22:41PM +0530, Sricharan R wrote:
> 
>> Now with kernel moving to all device tree, the default
>> boot command is changed to pass the device tree blob.
>> Also, adding the findfdt command to get the dt-blob
>> based on the board.
>>
>> Thanks to Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> for suggesting this.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sricharan R <r.sricharan at ti.com>
> [snip]
>> @@ -145,6 +149,10 @@
>>  	"loadaddr=0x82000000\0" \
>>  	"console=ttyO2,115200n8\0" \
>>  	"fdt_high=0xffffffff\0" \
>> +	"fdtaddr=0x80f80000\0" \
>> +	"bootpart=0:1\0" \
>> +	"bootdir=\0" \
>> +	"bootfile=uImage\0" \
> 
> What about 0:2 and /boot, ala am335x_evm as well?  I'm not aware of any
> distributions being really clever and mounting the FAT partition to
> /boot and I know some that have been expecting and using their
> ext*-located kernels for a while for various TI platforms.  And wer're
> moving in that latter direction too :)  Thanks!
> 
  Sorry, i am not clear here. You mean default partition should be '2' and
  not '1'. why ?. Is there any ordering like FAT-1, EXT2-2, etc ?
  The reason i added 0:1, was we generally have boot FAT as partition '1'
  and directly take images from there, without any hierarchies (/boot)

Regards,
 Sricharan


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