On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 11:43:37AM +1000, David Gibson wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 09:04:13PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 10:37:06AM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > > > Stephen Rothwell writes: > > > > > > > WRAP arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.ps3 > > > > /home/sfr/kernels/linus/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper: line 113: dtc: > > > > command not found > > > > make[2]: *** [arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.ps3] Error 1 > > > > > > Hmmm, we should be shipping .dtb files with the tree, so people don't > > > have to have dtc installed. > > > > Really? I don't think we're quite ready for that. Particularly for the > > embedded boards. Those DTS files still get lots of churn, and having to > > update both the .dts and .dtb at the same time seems a bit fragile. > > I sort of prefer this option in theory, but it's basically > impossible. People updating dts files by patch would also have to > update the dtb, which can't be done in a normal patch, since they're > binary.
I agree. Shipping a magic binary blob, especially ones that haven't really settled out, will be a real headache for poeple. > I'm working with sfr now on importing dtc into the kernel tree. IIRC, this was discussed when dtc first came into existence but it was pooh-poohed. I forget why now. Mark _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev