[RFC PATCH V2 2/2] kbuild: dtbs_install: new make target

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Tue Nov 19 13:42:17 EST 2013


On 11/19/2013 05:28 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 03:46:32PM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> Again, the point is not that it's hard to write the script. As you
>> demonstrated, it's easy. The problem is that then, everybody has to do
>> something different for Tegra, forever. No matter how small the actual
>> cost of doing it is, it's still non-scalable to require that everyone
>> know about this special case. I'm not convinced the issue would be
>> isolated to Tegra either.
> 
> That's why there's the facility to allow an override to the script,
> just like there's the facility to override the default script when
> running "make install".

Again, you are completely missing the point about that not scaling at all.

But I will go and investigate what it takes to support renaming the
DTBs. Everyone (using Tegra) will have to update their bootloader, but
perhaps that can be dealt with.



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