[U-Boot] Selecting from multiple device trees at runtime

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Mon Jan 7 21:12:40 CET 2013


Dear Curt Brune,

In message <50EB0D92.2020707 at cumulusnetworks.com> you wrote:
> 
> What I would love is to have a single multi-file uImage I could use on 
> all my platforms.  The idea is to introduce a new image type that is a 
> list of device tree blobs.

In addition to the file system based approach suggested by Stephen,
you should have a look into using FIT images (see doc/uImage.FIT/ ).
One of the reasons for creating these was to deal with situations
exactly as you describe...

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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