[Gta04-owner] Linux 3.5 on GTA04

[NeilBrown]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:43:46 +0100 Bob Ham <rah at settrans.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 17:26 +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> 
> > One of the reasons for making the 3G wake GPIO into an
> > input button was that it would be easier to describe using device-tree.
> 
> Recently I took a look at this device-tree business and it seems quite
> straightforward.  I hadn't realised it was something the OpenBoot
> firmware on my old Sun machines have been using for years :-)
> 
> However, what I didn't find out was the status of support in Linux.  Can
> I ask: is the infrastructure in place yet to start booting Linux on ARM
> with a device-tree description of the hardware?
> 

I believe so, yes.  I suspect it is possible to describe enough of the
hardware in the GTA04 to get it to boot, but not to make it fully functional.
If we got to that stage it should be fairly straight forward to convert the
remaining drivers to work with device tree.

NeilBrown

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