[PATCH] ARM: supply a DTB file to be appended

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Thu Sep 8 17:50:27 EDT 2011


On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 12:14:44PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
>> This adds a Kconfig string where you can specify a
>> file to be appended to the zImage on build, then
>> auto-appends it. The idea is to mimic how we supply
>> an initramfs image by a similar parameter.
>
> The other option is to encode the .dtb filename into the zImage target
> name (something like zImage.%).  The advantage being that the build
> can emit multiple .dtb bound images without changing the kernel
> config.  This is what PowerPC currently does.

Then "make uimage" has to emit uImage.% as well I guess.

I could do that, but it appears Nico don't like making this too
easy to do so I'll just keep it around as some out-of-tree patch
for personal playground.

Thanks,
Linus Walleij



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