[PATCH] Build a uImage with dtb already appended

[Willy Tarreau]

Hi Olof,

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 06:31:48PM -0800, Olof Johansson wrote:
> 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.

FWIW, I *do* find this useful. My build scripts have to differ between
x86 and ARM only because of dtb. I would love to see this patch merged,
and anyway I'll add it to my own tree because it will simplify my build
process.

Thanks,
Willy