[PATCH] Build a uImage with dtb already appended

Olof Johansson olof at lixom.net
Wed Jan 14 18:31:48 PST 2015


On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Christoph Junghans <ottxor at gentoo.org> wrote:
> Add new targets to build zImage and uImage with DTB appended (i.e. make
> 'uImage-dtb.am335x-bone' or 'make zImage-dtb.omap3-evm').
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr at canonical.com>
> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca>
> Signed-off-by: Domenico Andreoli <domenico.andreoli at linux.com>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Junghans <ottxor at gentoo.org>
> ---
>
> I don't know why this never got merged, but I think it is still useful.

Maybe the patch description on the first version of the patch is a hint?

https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/2/200

In general, we're moving away from generating custom images straight
out of the kernel build system. You should make that part of your
installation scripts or similar instead.


-Olof



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