On Wednesday 19 January 2011, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Loïc Minier wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011, James Westby wrote: > > > fdt > > > > > > What would we do with this if we found it in a hwpack? > > > > I don't know; I need more handson experience with DT to tell. It might > > be that we don't need this this cycle because the DT will be embedded > > in the zImage. Otherwise, we'd have to mkimage it along uImage and > > uInitrd, probably in a uFdt or something like that, and then change the > > boot script to pass it to the kernel. > > I'd prefer if we could keep the kernel and fdt images separate as much > as possible. In theory, the fdt should be updated far less often than > the kernel. If we really need to bundle the kernel and fdt together > then there is generic support for that in the kernel build system > already.
More importantly, you might want to update the fdt files on a different cycle than the kernel. If you have a new slightly different configuration in a new machine you want to support, it may be easier to add a new file somewhere than doing a respin of all the kernel packages when they contain the dtc source. I would not see much of a problem with always shipping all trees with the kernel package, even if they never change. Arnd _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev