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Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Sean MacLennan,
> 
> In message <20080910164046.4813753b@wally.pikatech.com> you wrote:
>> I believe if the dts is built into u-boot, the dtc is not built.
> 
> This is never the case. The device tree is considered to be  part  of
> and provided to the boot loader by the kernel.

No, it's provided to the kernel by the firmware.  That the repository 
for the files that the user provides to u-boot for this purpose happens 
to live in the Linux source tree is irrelevant.

-Scott