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