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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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