[haiku-commits] Re: BRANCH mmu_man-github.sam460ex - in src/system/boot/platform/u-boot: . src/system/boot

  • From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 22:27:36 +0200

On 24/08/2012 21:50, François Revol wrote:
> On 24/08/2012 17:10, Ithamar R. Adema wrote:
>> On 08/24/2012 04:49 PM, mmu_man-github.sam460ex wrote:
>>>    * For the sam460ex and likely some ARM boards we will try to boot
>>>    using the passed FDT, as it's the recommended method now.
>> If I ever get the time to pull myself out of Android RL work and back
>> into the ARM port, this would indeed be the plan ;)
> 
> Still, I'm not sure how to handle it then, I mean the initrd and fdt
> schemes seem to be mutually exclusive in linux... but we do need a form
> of initrd  anyway for haiku_loader, since FDT or not we cannot rely on
> U-Boot to be callable (their API is never compiled in).

Hmm I need some sleep, at least some QEMU targets do add initrd
properties to /chosen. Though I'm not sure the sam board does it, I'll
have to try.

François.

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