From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from astoria.ccjclearline.com ([64.235.106.9]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.80.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1X337J-0006Tt-46 for barebox@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 04 Jul 2014 13:01:32 +0000 Received: from [99.240.204.5] (port=56645 helo=crashcourse.ca) by astoria.ccjclearline.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1X336w-0002sY-Uq for barebox@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 04 Jul 2014 09:01:07 -0400 Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 09:01:04 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "barebox" Errors-To: barebox-bounces+u.kleine-koenig=pengutronix.de@lists.infradead.org Subject: wanting to clarify terminology regarding kernel and device trees To: "U-Boot Version 2 (barebox)" reading the user manual, section "Booting Linux", about to do a bit of cleanup there, and i read this: "NOTE: it may happen that barebox is probed from the devicetree, but you have want to start a Kernel without passing a devicetree. In this case call oftree -f to free the internal devicetree before calling bootm" i'm puzzled by the phrase "it may happen that barebox is probed from the devicetree". i'm sure this is not meant to imply that the device tree itself does any actual "probing" of barebox. i'm guessing that what this should really say is something like, "even if barebox has been built with an internal device tree, you may want to start the kernel without passing that device tree." thus, "oftree -f", etc, etc. also, at the risk of being overly pedantic, i would distinguish between the actions of "probing" and "consulting." i would normally use the word "probe" in the sense of probing for possible devices, not knowing if they're there or not. i would use the word "consult" when one is reading or processing something that is known to be there, such as the device tree. some probably silly questions about device trees coming up shortly ... rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox