A unified imx6 kernel config, old WANDBOARD-* configs going away

[Tom Everett]

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 at 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
>
>
>


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