blob: dd1c632bc9265ec5c52bcb11c83c21220900abd7 [file] [log] [blame]
Open Firmware Flat Tree and usage.
----------------------------------
As part of the ongoing cleanup of the Linux PPC trees, the preferred
way to pass bootloader and board setup information is the open
firmware flat tree.
Please take a look at the following email discussion for some
background.
http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-August/019408.html
http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-August/019362.html
The generated tree is part static and part dynamic.
There is a static part which is compiled in with DTC and a dynamic
part which is programmatically appended.
You'll need a fairly recent DTC tool, which is available by git at
rsync://ozlabs.org/dtc/dtc.git
The xxd binary dumper is needed too which I got from
ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/utilities/etc/xxd-1.10.tar.gz
Pantelis Antoniou, 13 Oct 2005