[PATCH RESEND] ARM: add dtbImage.<dt> and dtbuImage.<dt> rules

Nicolas Pitre nico at fluxnic.net
Mon Sep 30 23:21:20 EDT 2013


On Mon, 30 Sep 2013, Rob Herring wrote:

> I don't think appended DTB will go away. In fact, use of it is now
> being added to flash-kernel in debian/ubuntu. However, this is only
> done at OS install time on running on the h/w.

Excellent!  That is exactly the use case this feature was designed for.  
Otherwise we would simply have linked the DTB into the kernel image 
directly.

Appending a DTB to zImage should be done at kernel installation time, 
not at build time.  The nuance might not mean a lot for some 
environment, but for a distro this is clearly separate operations.


Nicolas



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