On 13/09/2019 16:06, Michal Suchánek wrote:
On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 15:59:13 +0200 Michal Suchánek
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>>>>>> On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 09:25:37 +0200 Guillaume Gardet >>>>>>
wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> 1) what consumes these DTBs? >>>>>> >>>>>> They are not maintained in the SLE branches so if >>>>>> anything does use them it should change. >>>>> >>>>> We need DTBs for most ARM systems, so this is a mandatory >> requirement. >>>> >>>> I don't dispute that DTBs are needed. But do they come from >>>> the kernel package? >>> >>> Yes, they are. >>> From arch/arm/boot/dts/ and arch/arm64/boot/dts/ >> >> Yes, there are DTBs in the kernel. What exactly uses these >> unmaintained DTBs? > > Why unmaintained? They are maintained as the rest of sources of > the Linux kernel. Because nobody backports fixes for them. > Non-UEFI ARM systems require those DTB to boot a Linux kernel. The > DTB is passed by the bootloader (u-boot/grub). A DTB is passed by u-boot/grub. Does it come from the kernel package, though?
Yes, it does.
How exactly?
U-Boot loads the right DTB for the current platform, from filesystem to RAM and passes the pointer to the kernel. You may find this interesting, if you do not know DTB: https://events.static.linuxfound.org/sites/events/files/slides/petazzoni-dev...
I know DTBs.
What I don't know is where the DTB that gets loaded if you boot (open)SUSE comes from, specifically.
For example, checking a system I am running I see this:
file /boot/vc/bcm2710-rpi-3-b-plus.dtb is not owned by any package
How did the file get there?
RPi3 is different. The dtb of RPi comes from raspberrypi-firmware-dt.rpm Regards, Matthias -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org