[RFC DTC PATCH] dtc: add symlink (-L) output to dtbs

Jason Cooper jason at lakedaemon.net
Fri Nov 15 10:23:36 EST 2013


On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 07:26:29PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> We have ways and means to deal with the installation of kernel images
> and modules.  There's well defined makefile targets for this, and
> make variables which control where and how these get put.  For the
> kernel image, you can specify the script to be run (which is called
> with the location of the *Image file) for copying.  Pulling it manually
> out of arch/arm/boot is really a failure of the distro packaging people
> to get their process right.
> 
> The same goes for the DT files: if we don't provide a method for the
> kernel build system to install these in a sane way, then that's our
> failing.  However, distros should be asking for this, and not picking
> the files out of arch/arm/boot/dts.

Exactly.  V2 hopefully this weekend implementing 'make dtbs-install'

thx,

Jason.



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