>> I'd be following this more closely if compiling a device tree didn't >> currently >> require an external utility (dtc or some such) that doesn't come with >> the >> Linux kernel. No other target platform I've built kernels for >> requires such >> an environmental dependency. > > No? You haven't built kernels for other platforms that have external > dependencies such as perl, gcc, make, binutils, etc.? :)
Two of the supported Linux archs cannot be built with a mainline compiler, even! And I have to install GNU sed/awk to get builds to work, too. OTOH, it would be nice if we didn't need DTC -- it itself doesn't build out-of-the-box on all systems, either ;-) >> (This is a problem both for hardwiring the >> device tree into the kernel and for building a new boot rom from the >> linux >> kernel's ppc boot wrapper that would contain such a device tree to >> feed to >> the kernel.) > > It's only really been a problem for ps3 so far, since the embedded > guys don't seem to have any difficulty with installing dtc. We are > looking at what to do for ps3 and prep, and the answer may well > involve bundling dtc in the kernel source (it's not too big, around > 3400 lines). If only a few platforms have this problem, we could instead include their .dtb files in the kernel source tree. Segher _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
