On Wednesday 28 September 2011, Mark Salter wrote: > > Other architectures allow simply appending the device tree to the > > kernel image file, which is more convenient for users and does > > not require much kernel support. Have you tried this? > > Well, I considered it. My main reason for doing it this way was one of > debugging convenience. The debugger loads an ELF file and while I was > making lots of device tree changes in the tree and in the code, it was > more convenient to have one ELF file to deal with rather than an ELF > file and a dtb. And the thought was to get rid of it altogether once > bootloader support comes along. Maybe the thing to do would be to just > rip it out of the kernel. It can almost as easily be post-processing > step outside the kernel. Ok, if you plan to properly support it in the boot loader anyway, that's probably the best option. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
