Open Firmware Flat Tree and usage. ---------------------------------- As part of the ongoing cleanup of the Linux PPC trees, the preferred way to pass bootloader and board setup information is the open firmware flat tree. Please take a look at the following email discussion for some background. http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-August/019408.html http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-August/019362.html The generated tree is part static and part dynamic. There is a static part which is compiled in with DTC and a dynamic part which is programmatically appended. You'll need a fairly recent DTC tool, which is available by git at rsync://ozlabs.org/dtc/dtc.git The xxd binary dumper is needed too which I got from ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/utilities/etc/xxd-1.10.tar.gz Pantelis Antoniou, 13 Oct 2005