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@@ -70,28 +70,6 @@ Currently, the following image format targets exist:
kernel with this image type and it depends entirely on
the embedded device tree for all information.
- The simpleImage is useful for booting systems with
- an unknown firmware interface or for booting from
- a debugger when no firmware is present (such as on
- the Xilinx Virtex platform). The only assumption that
- simpleImage makes is that RAM is correctly initialized
- and that the MMU is either off or has RAM mapped to
- base address 0.
-
- simpleImage also supports inserting special platform
- specific initialization code to the start of the bootup
- sequence. The virtex405 platform uses this feature to
- ensure that the cache is invalidated before caching
- is enabled. Platform specific initialization code is
- added as part of the wrapper script and is keyed on
- the image target name. For example, all
- simpleImage.virtex405-* targets will add the
- virtex405-head.S initialization code (This also means
- that the dts file for virtex405 targets should be
- named (virtex405-<board>.dts). Search the wrapper
- script for 'virtex405' and see the file
- arch/powerpc/boot/virtex405-head.S for details.
-
treeImage.%; Image format for used with OpenBIOS firmware found
on some ppc4xx hardware. This image embeds a device
tree blob inside the image.
@@ -116,10 +94,8 @@ Image types which embed a device tree blob (simpleImage, dtbImage, treeImage,
and cuImage) all generate the device tree blob from a file in the
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/ directory. The Makefile selects the correct device
tree source based on the name of the target. Therefore, if the kernel is
-built with 'make treeImage.walnut simpleImage.virtex405-ml403', then the
-build system will use arch/powerpc/boot/dts/walnut.dts to build
-treeImage.walnut and arch/powerpc/boot/dts/virtex405-ml403.dts to build
-the simpleImage.virtex405-ml403.
+built with 'make treeImage.walnut', then the build system will use
+arch/powerpc/boot/dts/walnut.dts to build treeImage.walnut.
Two special targets called 'zImage' and 'zImage.initrd' also exist. These
targets build all the default images as selected by the kernel configuration.