Building an uImage with appended DTB

[Grant Likely]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Mason <slash.tmp at free.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Per Russell's advice (IIRC) I have a script to generate a uImage
> of a kernel with an appended DTB:
>
> export LOADADDR=0x80008000
> MAKE="make -j2 ARCH=arm"
> $MAKE dtbs zImage && \
> cat arch/arm/boot/zImage arch/arm/boot/dts/tango4-vantage-1172.dtb >zImage.tmp && \
> mv zImage.tmp arch/arm/boot/zImage && \
> $MAKE uImage
>
> Russell's version uses an explicit mkimage instead of "MAKE uImage"
> perhaps in part to get around the following limitation:
>
> if there is nothing to be done, cat+mv will update arch/arm/boot/zImage
> thus the uImage will be rebuilt even when it's not necessary.
>
> Doesn't the top-level Makefile support a target to build a uImage
> with appended DTB?
>
> (I suppose someone has submitted a patch for that. Was it perhaps
> never merged? Or did I just miss the feature?)

I don't remember what happened there. That was a long time ago. I
think it got nacked, but cannot remember the reason.

g.