From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2015 20:12:29 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/7] dtc: add host build In-Reply-To: <20151003231346.36ccac9e@gmx.net> (Peter Seiderer's message of "Sat, 3 Oct 2015 23:13:46 +0200") References: <1443901457-7914-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <1443901457-7914-3-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <20151003231346.36ccac9e@gmx.net> Message-ID: <87eghajyeq.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 >>>>> "Peter" == Peter Seiderer writes: Hi, >> 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. > No, please do not drop the linux dtc host...things have changed since > my initial patch set. My intend was do enable a host dtc version with > overlay support as used with the raspberry pi (therefore the host > dtc package with overlay support patches which where not included > with the rpi kernel sources dtc package). Now things have changed > and the actual rpi kernel sources dtc already contain the overlay > patches. Please keep both options, linux sources host dtc and > extra host dtc package... The problem really is that dtc isn't dtc. I've changed the Linux kernel package to install its dtc into $(HOST_DIR)/usr/bin/linux-dtc instead so it doesn't conflict with host-dtc. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard