From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2015 20:14:12 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/7] dtc: add host build In-Reply-To: <1443901457-7914-3-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> (Thomas Petazzoni's message of "Sat, 3 Oct 2015 20:44:12 +0100") References: <1443901457-7914-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <1443901457-7914-3-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <87a8ryjybv.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni writes: > From: Peter Seiderer > Having a host variant of dtc is needed for example for U-Boot, which > uses the Device Tree for a number of platforms. > In addition, now that we have a proper host-dtc package, it is no > longer needed for the linux package to install the host dtc compiler: > users interested in having the host dtc compiler can simply enable > this package. > A Config.in.host option is added to build host-dtc, because the > initial reason why the host DTC built by the kernel was installed in > $(HOST_DIR)/usr/bin (commit 707d44d0a28906ebda49584dd5f55985406f0bde > from Thomas DS) was: > Having dtc as a host tool can be useful for users that have a > custom boot scenario where the device tree is not embedded in the > kernel. > [Thomas: > - remove the linux installation of host dtc. > - rework the commit log.] Committed with the linux.mk part dropped, thanks. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard