On Apr 11, 2013, at 10:44 AM, Chris Friesen wrote: > > 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?
We've normally just done multiple tftp fetches and one grabs dtb and one grabs kernel. - k _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
