Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 06:45:58 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: gljennjohn@googlemail.com Cc: phcoder@gmail.com, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, grub-devel@gnu.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Multiboot2 drafting Message-ID: <20100514.064558.956847443251806466.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20100514132142.252b092d@ernst.jennejohn.org> References: <20100514020055.GB89230@duncan.reilly.home> <4BECEE31.3060004@gmail.com> <20100514132142.252b092d@ernst.jennejohn.org>
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Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@googlemail.com> writes:
: As an example of what I think Andrew was addressing, U-Boot can pass a
: Flattened Device Tree to the Linux kernel. This basically allows a
: Linux kernel to handle variants of a board without having to custom
: compile Linux for each board. At the moment I think only powerpc-based
: boards can be handled in this way.
In the kernel.org kernel, this is correct. There's a fairly mature
set of patches for ARM that brings many of the newer ARM boards into
the FDT picture. There's some very immature MIPS patches flowing
around as well.
Warner
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