On Fri, 2014-05-23 at 16:40 +0800, Andy Green wrote:
> On 23 May 2014 16:34, Ian Campbell <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2014-05-23 at 15:44 +0800, Andy Green wrote:
> >> > What I meant was that the boot script on the sd card would be
> >> assuming
> >> > that the bootloader was the Fujitsu one which "knows the right dtb
> >> > filename for that SoC", and hence would only work on those systems.
> >> > Unless this knowledge of the right dtb name is to become a standard
> >>
> >> No, as I wrote those systems have a board-specific bootloader on the
> >> board, not the OS media, that knows the correct dtb name for the
> >> board.  There is no 'boot script on the SD card' needed for these kind
> >> of SoC.
> >
> > My main point was that the fact that this works with some particular
> > configuration which Fujitsu happens to use doesn't mean that it will
> > work everywhere unless there is some sort of standardisation going on in
> > this area, tailoring something to work with the Fujitsu setup is not all
> > that useful.
> 
> Yes I agree.  But no tailoring is being asked for,
> 
> it's an example of a setup where you can move one SD card around
> between different SoC systems using same kernel and multiple dtb.
> 
> I gave that example because you asked for use-cases where it was
> useful dumping all the DTBs on the card instead of the DTB matching
> the system it was installed on.

I did yes, sorry, got confused with other subthreads!

Ian.


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