On Jul 28, 2008, at 12:40 PM, Grant Likely wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:07:49AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: >> One topic that come up during OLS in discussions and u-boot BOF was >> the idea of driving u-boot configuration from a device tree instead >> of >> from "config.h". I was wondering if anyone has actually looked at >> doing this. >> >> One question I have is how does (or should) u-boot identify where to >> find the device tree. I think the idea would be that this "area" >> could be easily reflashed with a new blob to get a new configuration. > > In principle I like the idea of having configuration retrieved from > the > device tree blob, but the idea of reflashing the blob in the context > of > u-boot scares me. In particular, if u-boot depends too much on the > presence of the blob, then it becomes a method of bricking a board if > users are able/expected to reflash the blob.
I dont see reflashing the blob as any different than reflashing u-boot itself w/respect to bricking a board. But I agree, in general I would hope u-boot would be able to still boot w/o the device tree information (might be crippled, but you could recover). - k ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ U-Boot-Users mailing list U-Boot-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/u-boot-users
