On 11/14/2013 12:16 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 12:00:24PM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote: > >> I don't think a distro should need to know the DTB filename at all. >> Rather, the/a bootloader should know which platform it's running on, and >> provide a variable/... to the boot script/... that defines the DTB >> filename. That would completely remove all the knowledge of DTB >> filenames from distros. > > At some point the distro has to install a dtb into some cannonical > place so the bootloader can find it.. > > Are you thinking that distros will have to ship a /boot/dtbs/*.dtb > with every dtb from the kernel build? Yes. How else would the distro support booting the install on arbitrary boards? > What happens when you install two different versions of the kernel? /boot/zImage-$version /boot/dtbs-$version/*.dtb > What about boot schemes that can load a kernel version dependent dtb? I think that's solved by installing the DTB files in a kernel-version-specific directory. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
