On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 05:43:12PM +0200, Georg Schardt wrote: > Hi, > > im searching for informations about the flatten device trees. the only > thing i know is, that the device tree is a kind of data-structure which > the bios or bootloader gives to the operation system. > > until now, i boot linux with uboot without a device tree, but newer > kernel wants a devicetree, i think ?? > i use a virtex4 board with an integrated powerpc > > how can i create the device tree file ? > how must the linux kernel be configured ? > is there a good internet page with informations ?
In the kernel, look at Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt You could also read the "A Symphony of Flavours: Using the device tree to describe embedded hardware" paper on page 27 of: http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2008/ols-2008-Proceedings-V2.pdf josh _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-embedded mailing list Linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded
