From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 23:44:32 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] uboot-tools: add missing dependency on host-dtc for the host package In-Reply-To: <20160505233851.26f9854f@free-electrons.com> References: <1462372709-24828-1-git-send-email-casantos@datacom.ind.br> <20160505220901.4db9e9a2@free-electrons.com> <1040860357.13861098.1462480371842.JavaMail.zimbra@datacom.ind.br> <20160505212716.GA4367@free.fr> <20160505233851.26f9854f@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20160505214432.GC4367@free.fr> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Thomas, All, On 2016-05-05 23:38 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly: > On Thu, 5 May 2016 23:27:16 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > > However, given how pervasive DTC is becoming, I think it would kinda > > make sense to have a mkimage that supports DT every time (I hope that > > adding DT support to mkimage does not remove functionality, does it?) > > Read again in which cases mkimage needs host-dtc. It is *NOT* related > to Device Tree at all. It is related to the FIT image format, which > happens to rely on the Device Tree syntax and compiler, but has > *nothing* to do with the Device Tree being used by the kernel to get a > description of the HW. Oh, OK. /me unconsciously associated dtc with generating DTB. But if it can be used for other things as well... Then option 2 is the best solution IMHO. Regards, Yann E. MORIN. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 223 225 172 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'