Re: DTC 1.0.0 Release Coming?

[David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 06:35:46PM -0700, Geoff Levand wrote:
> Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > David Gibson writes:
> > 
> >> We decided that since a formal dtc release was imminent, it would be
> >> simpler to make dtc a new kernel build requirement, rather than
> >> integrate the substantial blob of dtc code into the kernel tree and
> >> then have to deal with the maintenance / synchronization issues
> >> between the in-kernel and upstream versions.
> > 
> > Um, what I thought we decided was to ship a pre-built .dtb for ps3
> > (once its dts settles down), and make dtc a kernel build requirement
> > only for embedded platforms.
> 
> We could also ship a generated .S file (dtc -O asm -o ps3-dt.S ps3.dts),
> which would be easier to maintain in the source tree than a binary file,
> then use something like this in the wrapper script:
>   
>   ${CROSS}gcc -c -o ${platform}-dt.o ${platform}-dt.S
>   ${CROSS}objcopy -O binary ${platform}-dt.o ${platform}.dtb
> 
> Untested, but it seems like it would work.

Yes, I'm aware of that option and am considering it.

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