No more compiled-in FDTs?!

[Warner Losh]

On Feb 20, 2013, at 9:44 AM, Tim Kientzle wrote:

> I've just committed changes so that BeagleBone images
> (built with my scripts) no longer use the compiled-in FDT.
> (This includes changes to FreeBSD ubldr, to U-Boot,
> and to my scripts.)
> 
> RaspberryPi has not been using the compiled-in FDT for
> some time now.
> 
> My goal is demonstrate booting a single kernel on
> multiple ARM boards, which necessarily precludes
> using a compiled-in FDT.
> 
> I plan to soon comment-out the compiled-in FDT from
> the kernel configurations in FreeBSD SVN for both
> BeagleBone and RaspberryPi.
> 
> For reference, you can load an FDT from U-Boot:
>  $ fatload mmc 0:1 <address> <filename.dtb>
>  $ fdt addr <address>
> 
> or from within ubldr:
>  $ load -t fdt <filename.dtb>
> 
> These commands can be easily automated.  In either
> case, ubldr should now find the FDT and correctly pass
> it to the kernel.

That's awesome.

Warner