On Sep 23, 2014, at 11:24 AM, Christoph Egger <[email protected]> wrote:
> Am 23.09.14 um 17:26 schrieb Matt Thomas: >> >> On Sep 23, 2014, at 6:47 AM, Taylor R Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:41:25 +0200 >>> From: Martin Husemann <[email protected]> >>> >>> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 01:38:53PM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote: >>>> If it's GPL, we can make kernel modules. >>> >>> That is not very practical for display drivers on platforms like Manuel >>> is working on. >>> >>> Why not? Can't the boot loader load modules? >> >> No, arm is typically only monolithic kernels. There is no NetBSD bootloader, >> just u-boot or similar. >> > > AFAIK arm has a device tree in the firmware you use to load modules. That device tree, if present, is presented only to linux kernels. And it will not help you load modules since u-boot will not assist with that.
