On Monday 10 November 2014 17:51:45 Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > Create a new /sys entry '/sys/firmware/fdt' to export the FDT blob > that was passed to the kernel by the bootloader. This allows userland > applications such as kexec to access the raw binary. > > The fact that this node does not reside under /sys/firmware/device-tree > is deliberate: FDT is also used on arm64 UEFI/ACPI systems to > communicate just the UEFI and ACPI entry points, but the FDT is never > unflattened and used to configure the system. > > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> Can you elaborate on the motivation? Initially the fdt format was introduced to make it easy to pass the information from /proc/device-tree to the next kernel for kexec. Are you interested in cases where this does not work? Arnd -- 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
