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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/4] Add support for appended device tree blobs for arm
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:10:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120716151006.5b93bd4e@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1341309676-18681-3-git-send-email-maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>

Le Tue,  3 Jul 2012 12:01:14 +0200,
Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> a ?crit :

> +config BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_APPENDED_DTB
> +	bool "Append the Device Tree binary to the kernel"
> +	depends on BR2_arm || BR2_armeb
> +	help
> +	  After building the device tree blob, append it to the
> +	  kernel image. If necessary generates a uImage from that
> +	  new kernel image afterward.

Just got another idea here. Since cuImage and simpleImage on PowerPC
and Microblaze bundle their DTB, can't we define the Appended DTB
feature as an additional kernel image type?

I.e, on ARM, you would typically have:

	zImage
	zImage + appended DTB
	uImage
	uImage + appended DTB

Thomas
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-16 13:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-03 10:01 [Buildroot] [PATCHv2] Add some support for device tree kernels with appended trees Maxime Ripard
2012-07-03 10:01 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/4] Rework support for the device tree Maxime Ripard
2012-07-15 12:34   ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-07-15 12:41     ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-07-16 12:57   ` Thomas Petazzoni
     [not found]     ` <5006E601.4080807@essensium.com>
2012-07-19  7:42       ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-07-03 10:01 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/4] Add support for appended device tree blobs for arm Maxime Ripard
2012-07-15 12:41   ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-07-16 13:01   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-07-16 13:10   ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2012-07-03 10:01 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 3/4] Factorise the u-boot images code Maxime Ripard
2012-07-15 12:42   ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-07-16 13:03   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-07-03 10:01 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 4/4] Add cuImage(powerpc) and simpleImage(microblaze) as Linux kernel images variants Maxime Ripard
2012-07-15 12:43   ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-07-16 12:46 ` [Buildroot] [PATCHv2] Add some support for device tree kernels with appended trees Thomas Petazzoni

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