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Subject: Re: Merge dtc
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
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Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 01:59:04 +0000
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On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 15:02 +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> This very large patch incorporates a copy of dtc into the kernel
> source, in arch/powerpc/boot/dtc-src.  This means that dtc is no
> longer an external dependency to build kernels with configurations
> which need a dtb file.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> 
> Too big for the list, full patch at
> http://ozlabs.org/~dgibson/home/merge-dtc.patch

I think this is a bad idea -- it's hardly a difficult for those people
who _do_ need dts to obtain it separately.

It's bad enough that I have to separate out the bootwrapper code, which
probably ought to live outside the kernel. We shouldn't be merging
_more_ stuff in.

-- 
dwmw2