From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 21:45:14 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/6] Rework support for the device tree In-Reply-To: <1342528042-10038-3-git-send-email-maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> References: <1342528042-10038-1-git-send-email-maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> <1342528042-10038-3-git-send-email-maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <5012EFCA.2080809@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 07/17/12 14:27, Maxime Ripard wrote: > This patch introduces some support for device tree-enabled kernels. > > It replaces the former BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_DTS_FILE option that was > microblaze-only, that was quite limited. This option was quite > limited, first obviously because it was restricted to microblaze, > but also because it targetted only external device tree source files, > and allowed only to build simpleImages using the custom image name > mechanism. > > This patch adds a much more generic one, that can work on basically > every architecture that supports device tree. It allows to build > both device tree source file that comes with the kernel source or to > set the path to the device tree file to use so that one can use a > custom device tree. > > Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) Really nice! The BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_DTB_IS_SELF_BUILT part actually belongs to patch 4/6, but that's a minor detail. Regards, Arnout -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286540 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F