On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Nicolas Pitre <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 8 Sep 2011, Linus Walleij wrote: >> >> Is there a particular reason why we want to append the >> device tree to the zImage rather than to vmlinux? > > So this ability to simply append the DTB to a zImage is just a > convenience to accommodate legacy bootloaders. It should _not_ become > the primary way of providing a DTB to the kernel.
I understand this, however this one legacy bootloader for U300 does not support compressed images, just plain vmlinux. I intended to use it for some cross-testing of the append patches since they wouldn't work for me on other hardware. I'll just drop that attempt, no big deal. Thanks, Linus Walleij _______________________________________________ devicetree-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/devicetree-discuss
