Hi Otavio, On 25 January 2016 at 14:57, Otavio Salvador <otavio.salva...@ossystems.com.br> wrote: > Hello Simon, > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 6:30 PM, Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org> wrote: >> At present u-boot.bin holds the plain U-Boot binary without the device tree. >> This is somewhat annoying since you need either u-boot.bin or u-boot-dtb.bin >> depending on whether device tree is used. >> >> This series adjusts the build such that u-boot.bin includes a device tree, >> and the plain binary is in u-boot-nodtb.bin. For now u-boot-dtb.bin remains >> the same. >> >> This should be acceptable since: >> >> - without OF_CONTROL, u-boot.bin still does not include a device tree >> - with OF_CONTROL, u-boot-dtb.bin does not change >> >> The main impact is build systems which are set up to use u-boot.bin as >> the output file and then add a device tree. These will have to change to use >> u-boot-nodtb.bin instead. >> >> The original decision to use a separate u-boot-dtb.bin was aimed at allowing >> any device tree file to be concatenated to the u-boot.bin image after the >> build. However this no-longer seems so important. More important is the >> convenience of using the same output file regardless of the setting for >> OF_CONTROL. > > This makes sense for user-friendness point of view and still allows > for build systems to interact over the raw copy of U-Boot to > concatenate it with the desired set of Device Tree files. > > I think the more platforms move to Device Tree (from U-Boot point of > view) the more important this change is.
Yes that is my motivation. We have been adding more and more special-case Makefile rules, and build/deploy instruction have had to change, etc. This way we can make the DT conversion a bit more seamless. > > I do support this addition. Tom, please make sure to mention this on > the NEWS entry for the next release as integrations must to be aware > of this behavior change. Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot