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

Nicolas Pitre nicolas.pitre at linaro.org
Mon Sep 19 11:22:28 EDT 2011


On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Linus Walleij wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Linus Walleij
> <linus.walleij at stericsson.com> wrote:
> 
> > This makes it easy to script the kernel build with
> > different device trees, and it also vastly simplifies
> > building uImages since "make uImage" will now pick
> > up the devcie tree and include it in the final image
> > as part of the build process.
> 
> A clarification here on what it actually simplifies.
> 
> make zImage
> cat my.dtb >> arch/arm/boot/zImage
> make uImage
> 
> Does *not* work.

You must have been confused by what this patch fixes:

http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/viewpatch.php?id=7016/1

Some confusion on my part made me create a similar patch and send it to 
RMK, but the issue being fixed is the same.

So yes, the above now *does* work.


Nicolas



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