To use this feature you will need to get the device tree compiler here:
- git://jdl.com/software/dtc.git
+ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dtc/dtc.git
For example:
- $ git clone git://jdl.com/software/dtc.git
+ $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dtc/dtc.git
$ cd dtc
$ make
$ sudo make install
arch/<arch>/dts, and then make any adjustments required.
If CONFIG_OF_EMBED is defined, then it will be picked up and built into
-the U-Boot image (including u-boot.bin).
+the U-Boot image (including u-boot.bin). This is suitable for debugging
+and development only and is not recommended for production devices.
If CONFIG_OF_SEPARATE is defined, then it will be built and placed in
a u-boot.dtb file alongside u-boot.bin. A common approach is then to
cat u-boot.bin u-boot.dtb >image.bin
-and then flash image.bin onto your board.
+and then flash image.bin onto your board. Note that U-Boot creates
+u-boot-dtb.bin which does the above step for you also. If you are using
+CONFIG_SPL_FRAMEWORK, then u-boot.img will be built to include the device
+tree binary.
If CONFIG_OF_HOSTFILE is defined, then it will be read from a file on
startup. This is only useful for sandbox. Use the -d flag to U-Boot to
You cannot use more than one of these options at the same time.
+To use a device tree file that you have compiled yourself, pass
+EXT_DTB=<filename> to 'make', as in:
+
+ make EXT_DTB=boot/am335x-boneblack-pubkey.dtb
+
+Then U-Boot will copy that file to u-boot.dtb, put it in the .img file
+if used, and u-boot-dtb.bin.
+
If you wish to put the fdt at a different address in memory, you can
define the "fdtcontroladdr" environment variable. This is the hex
address of the fdt binary blob, and will override either of the options.
$ make DEVICE_TREE=<dts-file-name>
+Configuration Options
+---------------------
+
+A number of run-time configuration options are provided in the /config node
+of the control device tree. You can access these using fdtdec_get_config_int(),
+fdtdec_get_config_bool() and fdtdec_get_config_string().
+
+Available options are:
+
+silent-console
+ If present and non-zero, the console is silenced by default on boot.
+
+no-keyboard
+ Tells U-Boot not to expect an attached keyboard with a VGA console
+
+
Limitations
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