1Open Firmware Flat Tree and usage. 2---------------------------------- 3 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. 7 8Please take a look at the following email discussion for some 9background. 10 11 http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-August/019408.html 12 http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-August/019362.html 13 14The generated tree is part static and part dynamic. 15 16There is a static part which is compiled in with DTC and a dynamic 17part which is programmatically appended. 18 19You'll need a fairly recent DTC tool, which is available by git at 20 21 rsync://ozlabs.org/dtc/dtc.git 22 23The xxd binary dumper is needed too which I got from 24 25 ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/utilities/etc/xxd-1.10.tar.gz 26 27 28Pantelis Antoniou, 13 Oct 2005 29