[RFC PATCH V2 9/9] appended dtbs works!

Jason Cooper jason at lakedaemon.net
Fri Aug 2 15:54:07 EDT 2013


On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 03:42:22PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Aug 2013, Jason Cooper wrote:
> 
> > With this commit, the user can build a single binary with the zImage
> > linked in and the dtbs appended.
> 
> Do you mean that you can append a DTB to the resulting binary we call 
> the impedance matcher,

Yes.

> This project allows for turning off CONFIG_ARM_APPENDED_DTB and that 
> should probably be documented somewhere to avoid confusion.

Agreed.

A lot of folks can just use the generic config without writing
custom board code.  So, appended or addressed zImage, and addressed
single dtb.  Once the impedance-matcher has some more real-world
testing, should we look at deprecating CONFIG_ARM_APPENDED_DTB?

thx,

Jason.



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