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On Feb 9, 2013, at 11:07 PM, Warner Losh wrote:

>> * For RPi, this already happens:  the first-stage boot
>>    loads a DTB, ubldr uses "fdt addr" to access that DTB
>>    in a known location and then passes it to the kernel.
>=20
> Doesn't the RPi's boot loader give our /boot/loader enough info to get =
this without the fdt addr command?

I haven't dug into this yet, but there's a mismatch somewhere
between the RPi first-stage boot loader, U-Boot, and our ubldr.

I briefly tried loading our kernel straight from the RPi
first stage boot loader (dropping U-Boot and ubldr
phases) but didn't get very far with it.

Tim