On Jul 28, 2008, at 1:13 PM, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote: > 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. > > Last year I brought up the topic twice: > > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=46F384E6.5030603%40grandegger.com > >> 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. > > Yep, it's even feasible to flash more than one blob and select one > somehow in the early boot phase. > > Our main interest in using FDT for U-Boot is to make it dynamically > configurable having just one image for various variants of the > hardware. Replacing config.h completely seems overkill to me (and > will not even be possible).
Agreed. I'm not suggesting replacing config.h, but removing bits and pieces of it. - 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
