Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 20:44:27 -0700 From: Tom Everett <tom@khubla.com> To: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> Cc: Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com>, freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: A unified imx6 kernel config, old WANDBOARD-* configs going away Message-ID: <CAB3ij4BX-9NnAUk2B_VNSn5DbK1EO2D1g=JHNEm0BdNzzzeuqA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1393731762.1149.233.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> References: <1393594966.1149.161.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <F38D0A2F-D2AF-426D-8515-BD111501B2A2@kientzle.com> <CAB3ij4Dd1jq-_v7LVZ75skA3tZVOb=03vJ5JkSCb-7FL8FMrLg@mail.gmail.com> <1393731762.1149.233.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
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I've got an image that loads the dtb from the FAT partition. However, it was mentioned that the dtb could be loaded from the UFS partition. Given that u-boot doesn't have UFS support, how would this work? On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 8:42 PM, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Sat, 2014-03-01 at 18:01 -0700, Tom Everett wrote: > > I'm looking at the crochet code, and I see in freebsd_install_fdt that > both > > *.dtb and *.dts are supported. However on the source tree it's imx6.dtsi. > > What's the difference b/t a dts file and a dtsi file? > > A .dtsi file is an include file used by .dts files. A .dtb is the > binary (compiled) form used by the kernel. > > So there are several wandboard-something.dts files, each of which > includes imx6.dtsi where all the common parts live. For a new imx6 > device, a new board-named file similar to one of the wandboard files is > necessary, and it would also include imx6.dtsi. > > We're pushing hard towards just using the standard dtb files from > vendors, but we've got a bit of work to do before we're there. > > -- Ian > > > -- A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding - Douglas MacArthur
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