Fit images and EFI_LOAD_FILE2_PROTOCOL

[Heinrich Schuchardt]

On 06.10.20 14:43, Grant Likely wrote:

>
> Current U-Boot by default uses the same DT image for both U-Boot
> internal setup and to provide to the OS. This should be split so that
> the U-Boot internal version has what U-Boot needs without needs to track
> mainline Linux DTB schema.
>
> I've been looking into a generic config for adding a separate OS-dtb to
> U-Boot that is not used internally and is only passed to the OS. That
> would solve the problem you're seeing above.

What would be the advantage of building said second device-tree into
U-Boot instead of loading it from a (possibly signed) file?

Best regards

Heinrich

>
> That doesn't solve the problem of DTB schema stability, but it at least
> decouples the problem so we're not stuck.
>
> g.