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On Thu 2016-11-24 20:46:01, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 04:20:45PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > Proprietary, signed and closed bootloader NOLO does not support DT. So
> > for booting you need to append DTS file to kernel image.
> > 
> > U-Boot is optional and can be used as intermediate bootloader between
> > NOLO and kernel. But still it has problems with reading from nand, so
> > cannot read NVS data nor MAC address.
> 
> You could use kexec to pass the fixed DT.

Yeah. You could also strap desktop PC to a USB GPRS card, and call it
phone. You could also make a pig fly.

But because you could does not mean you should. No, sorry, kexec is
not acceptable. Too hard to set up, slows boot too much.

									Pavel
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