On Oct 16, 2007, at 1:00 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > >> You must have missed the thread where various people where >> complaining >> about how powerpc is the only architecture where they can't build >> kernels without some external tool that they don't have, etc., etc. >> >> We thought about shipping compiled DTBs for various platforms, but >> the >> problem there is that they can't be updated with a patch, so whoever >> commits a patch to the relevant .dts would have to remember to run >> dtc >> and commit the updated .dtb as well, which seems a bit error-prone. >> >> In the end, dtc isn't all that much code. We already have several >> other programs that run on the host in the process of making a >> zImage, >> such as wrapper, hack-coff, and addnote, not to mention the various C >> programs that are part of Kbuild, and unifdef, kallsyms, etc. >> >> So I think there definitely is a precedent for including dtc. > > Note that I just tried to build a 4xx kernel today ... and failed > due to > the lack of mkimage .. > > Another one that we need to either add to the kernel or make the > building of cuImage's optional.
I think if we add dtc we add mkimage since its even smaller. - k _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
