[syslinux] [RFC 0/2] syslinux: Add device tree support

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Jul 2 06:05:06 PDT 2012


It should be in linux.c32 in 4.06 and directly supported in 5.00.

Thierry Reding <thierry.reding at avionic-design.de> wrote:

>On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 03:37:54PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 05/31/2012 08:41 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
>> > This patch series adds support for passing a Flattened Device Tree
>(FDT)
>> > blob to the Linux kernel. Currently, only the linux.c32 module can
>do so
>> > and some additional checking should be done to only pass the blob
>if the
>> > kernel supports boot protocol 2.09 or later.
>> > 
>> > Thierry
>> 
>> Hi there,
>> 
>> I just merged a modified/more generic version of your patch.  I would
>> appreciate it if you could test it and report back.
>
>Tested latest master (59b77fc) and booted the system successfully. Can
>this still make it into the 5.00 release? Any chance of getting this
>directly supported by the ldlinux.sys?
>
>Thierry

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