Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RFC: Copying Device Tree File into reserved area of VMLINUX before deployment | From | Frank Rowand <> | Date | Mon, 20 Nov 2017 11:38:11 -0500 |
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Ulf,
On 11/20/17 06:44, Mark Rutland wrote: > On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 11:23:42PM -0500, Frank Rowand wrote: >> adding devicetree list, devicetree maintainers >> >> On 11/18/17 12:59, Ulf Samuelsson wrote: >>> I noticed when checking out the OpenWRT support for the board that they have a method to avoid having to pass the device tree address to the kernel, and can thus boot device tree based kernels with U-boots that >>> does not support device trees. >>> >>> Is this something that would be considered useful for including in mainstream: > > On 32-bit arm, we support an appended DTB for cases like this. The DTB > is appended to the end of the kernel image, rather than being embedded.
That is CONFIG_ARM_APPENDED_DTB, if you want to see what it looks like.
> Does mips not support something similar? > > Thanks, > Mark. >
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