Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] remove mpc8544ds.dtb

[Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>]

On 09/24/2011 02:32 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
> On 16.09.2011, at 21:05, Stuart Yoder wrote:
> 
>> From: Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@freescale.com>
>>
>> make install now compiles dtb
> 
> It doesn't when you don't have dtb installed, breaking the e500
> target for build environments that don't have dtb. I don't think
> that's a good idea. It's not been too painful upstream to keep the
> dtb and dts in sync.

So now we're avoiding new dependencies. :-)

It was more of an annoyance in internal development as we were
frequently changing the device tree to configure device assignment and
such.  For mainline QEMU the long-term plan should be to get rid of the
static device tree entirely, and to avoid doing configuration that way
in the first place, so it's not that big of a deal to keep both .dts and
.dtb around until then.

-Scott