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From: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: scottwood@freescale.com, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [POWERPC] bootwrapper: build multiple cuImages
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:21:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47A1A137.8020605@scram.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080131003347.5779.96112.stgit@trillian.secretlab.ca>

Hi Grant,

> Currently, the kernel uses CONFIG_DEVICE_TREE to wrap a kernel image
> with a fdt blob which means for any given configuration only one dts
> file can be selected and so support for only one board can be built
> 
> This patch moves the selection of the default .dts file out of the kernel
> config and into the bootwrapper makefile.  The makefile chooses which
> images to build based on the kernel config and the dts source file
> name is taken directly from the image name.  For example "cuImage.ebony"
> will use "ebony.dts" as the device tree source file.

Cool stuff. This should be the last step to enable multiplatform builds on
8xx etc. as Arndt asked a few days ago ;)

Thanks,
Jochen

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-31 10:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-31  0:34 [RFC] [POWERPC] bootwrapper: build multiple cuImages Grant Likely
2008-01-31  1:49 ` Stephen Neuendorffer
2008-01-31  2:40   ` Grant Likely
2008-01-31 16:00     ` Scott Wood
2008-01-31 17:22       ` Grant Likely
2008-01-31 10:21 ` Jochen Friedrich [this message]
2008-01-31 21:12 ` Geoff Levand

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