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diff --git a/doc/README.fdt-control b/doc/README.fdt-control index 634a10616fc..d6ab7bf5706 100644 --- a/doc/README.fdt-control +++ b/doc/README.fdt-control @@ -56,7 +56,11 @@ In case you are wondering, OF stands for Open Firmware. Tools ----- -To use this feature you will need to get the device tree compiler here: +To use this feature you will need to get the device tree compiler. This is +provided by U-Boot automatically. If you have a system version of dtc +(typically in the 'device-tree-compiler' package), it is currently not used. + +If you want to build your own dtc, it is kept here: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dtc/dtc.git @@ -170,6 +174,16 @@ After board configuration is done, fdt supported u-boot can be build in two ways $ make DEVICE_TREE=<dts-file-name> +Relocation, SPL and TPL +----------------------- + +U-Boot can be divided into three phases: TPL, SPL and U-Boot proper. + +The full device tree is available to U-Boot proper, but normally only a subset +(or none at all) is available to TPL and SPL. See 'Pre-Relocation Support' and +'SPL Support' in doc/driver-model/README.txt for more details. + + Limitations ----------- |