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From: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: Merge dtc
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:41:06 -0500
To: "Grant Likely" <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
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On Oct 16, 2007, at 8:17 AM, Grant Likely wrote:

> On 10/15/07, David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> 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.
>
> Powerpc is probably not going to be the only user of dtc.  Microblaze
> will be using it too.  Can it be put somewhere more common?

mkimage should also be put somewhere common since other archs use it.

- k