On 09/13/2012 10:32 AM, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> So as distros we are soon going to be forced to support DTB files. 
> Fedora likely sooner than the rest as we closely follow the
> mainline kernel throughout the life of a fedora release. Ideally
> the device manufacturers will provide dtb files. but then devices
> like the pandaboard, beagleboardXM etc with no storage to speak of
> we have to ship u-boot so likely will need to ship dtb files also.
> so far the best

At this stage in ARM development, the source of .dtb files is
generally the kernel build. Shipping U-Boot+DTB and kernel rather than
U-Boot and kernel+dtb is probably not going to work out very well.

> vendor i know of for dtb support is calxeda. and thats where we
> should encourage vendors to emulate, but until we get to there we
> need to take baby steps.

For the rest of us, can you please describe what Calxeda is doing, so
we know what to emulate?

Thanks.

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