Hi all,

We've got a powerpc system that uses u-boot. In our environment on bootup u-boot does a DHCP to get networking info, then uses TFTP to get the kernel, which then does DHCP again and NFS-mounts the initial root filesystem.

What's the standard practice for this sort of thing when using device tree blobs? Do most people use multi-file images or do they TFTP scripts to load and execute separate kernel/dtb files?

For multi-part images is there an in-kernel way of generating a file containing a kernel and dtb combined? I saw a patch proposed in 2008 to add a uImage.<dt> build target but it was shot down because it used the legacy multi-file format. Is there an equivalent build target that uses the FIT format?

Chris

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