On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 09:04:13PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 10:37:06AM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > Stephen Rothwell writes:
> >
> > > WRAP arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.ps3
> > > /home/sfr/kernels/linus/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper: line 113: dtc: command
> > > not found
> > > make[2]: *** [arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.ps3] Error 1
> >
> > Hmmm, we should be shipping .dtb files with the tree, so people don't
> > have to have dtc installed.
>
> Really? I don't think we're quite ready for that. Particularly for the
> embedded boards. Those DTS files still get lots of churn, and having to
> update both the .dts and .dtb at the same time seems a bit fragile.
I sort of prefer this option in theory, but it's basically
impossible. People updating dts files by patch would also have to
update the dtb, which can't be done in a normal patch, since they're
binary.
I'm working with sfr now on importing dtc into the kernel tree.
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