[U-Boot] having trouble booting a simple kernel on a TQM860 board

[Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>]

On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

> Dear Robert,
>
> In message <alpine.DEB.2.02.1112050701340.21244@oneiric> you wrote:
> >
> > > No.  Now you don't need a cuImage nay more.  Just use the DT as I
> > > showed you in the builkd and boot log I sent before.
> >
> >   for the sake of clarification, you write that i don't *need*
> > cuImages anymore, but that's not the same as saying that i *must* move
> > to using device trees.  in fact, a cuImage file still works just fine
>
> True, you don't have to use the DT.  You don't have to use the most
> straightforward way that has been well tested for a ton of
> combinations of recent U-Boot releases against recent kernel
> releases.
>
> You are free to chose any untested, unsupported way you like.
>
> It's perfectly fine to ignore all good advice you get here. But
> eventually you should then also stop asking further questions here.

  please stop being so defensive, wolfgang, it doesn't become you.  i
have no doubt that using a separate device tree is a better idea.  but
i also like to be very careful with my terminology.

  if someone says using a device tree is better, i'm fine with that.
but an earlier claim of yours seemed to suggest that one *needed* to
use a DT, and if that's the case, i just want to know that. i simply
like to know what my options are in case Plan A doesn't work, i can
try Plan B.

  also, i was *given* material to work with, and i'm making an effort
to change as little of it as possible if i don't have to, at the
request of the person who gave it to me.  and sometimes, political
reasons might trump technical reasons, as much as we don't want them
to.

rday

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