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Stephen Rothwell wrote:

>> Hmmm, we should be shipping .dtb files with the tree, so people don't
>> have to have dtc installed.
> 
> Unless, of course, we ship dtc ...

I like that idea.

I don't know much about the kernel build process, but is it normal to ship C files and have kbuild build them and then use the executables to build the rest of the kernel?