On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 12:08:06AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>
> On Oct 16, 2007, at 12:02 AM, David Gibson wrote:
>
> > This very large patch incorporates a copy of dtc into the kernel
> > source, in arch/powerpc/boot/dtc-src. This means that dtc is no
> > longer an external dependency to build kernels with configurations
> > which need a dtb file.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > Too big for the list, full patch at
> > http://ozlabs.org/~dgibson/home/merge-dtc.patch
>
> Dare I ask why we are including dtc in the kernel source tree? We
Well, we aren't unless Paul merges it..
> don't really have precedence for this and there are users outside of
> linux for dtc.
Because having dtc as an external dependency is inconvenient. This is
supposed to remain an embedded copy of dtc, not become the main dtc
repository.
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