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@@ -130,6 +130,10 @@ u-boot-dtb.bin which does the above step for you also. If you are using
CONFIG_SPL_FRAMEWORK, then u-boot.img will be built to include the device
tree binary.
+If CONFIG_OF_BOARD is defined, a board-specific routine will provide the
+device tree at runtime, for example if an earlier bootloader stage creates
+it and passes it to U-Boot.
+
If CONFIG_OF_HOSTFILE is defined, then it will be read from a file on
startup. This is only useful for sandbox. Use the -d flag to U-Boot to
specify the file to read.