On 11/30/07, fabien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all, > > After some problem with my custom board and kernel 2.6.19 about the > init process, i've moved > on 2.6.23 and that had fixed my problems. (related to this post : > http://marc.info/?l=linuxppc-embedded&m=119609022221017&w=2) > Apparently it was a problem with cpm_uart on SMC1. > (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/23/99) > the patch have been integrated in 2.6.23. Now i use this kernel and > busybox works. > I want to migrated my board in powerpc branch instead of ppc (i plan > to use xenomai but in 2.6.23 > there is only an adeos patch for piowerpc branch), but i see the use > of a device tree > instead of bd_t struct. I'm a bit disappointed because i also see that > older u-boot (in my case > ppcboot 1.1.5) aren't capable to pass dts to kernel. > Is there a way to keep my old bootloader to boot a powerpc branch kernel ?
Yes, you can build a 'cuImage' in arch/powerpc which wraps the kernel image with a device tree and copies the bd_t data into the tree before booting. Cheers, g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (403) 399-0195 _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-embedded mailing list Linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded
