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1Open Firmware Flat Tree and usage.
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4As part of the ongoing cleanup of the Linux PPC trees, the preferred
5way to pass bootloader and board setup information is the open
6firmware flat tree.
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8Please take a look at the following email discussion for some
9background.
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11  http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-August/019408.html
12  http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-August/019362.html
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14The generated tree is part static and part dynamic.
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16There is a static part which is compiled in with DTC and a dynamic
17part which is programmatically appended.
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19You'll need a fairly recent DTC tool, which is available by git at
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21  rsync://ozlabs.org/dtc/dtc.git
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23The xxd binary dumper is needed too which I got from
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25  ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/utilities/etc/xxd-1.10.tar.gz
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28Pantelis Antoniou, 13 Oct 2005
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