From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.179]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29988DDEB6 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:15:31 +1000 (EST) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id m28so2951754wag for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:15:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 07:15:29 -0600 From: "Grant Likely" Sender: glikely@secretlab.ca To: "Grant Likely" , "Paul Mackerras" , "Josh Boyer" , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: Merge dtc In-Reply-To: <20071017052220.GA3801@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <20071016050217.GA9052@localhost.localdomain> <20071017052220.GA3801@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On 10/16/07, David Gibson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 07:17:01AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote: > > On 10/15/07, 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. > > > > 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? > > Well, I guess we can move it to scripts/ when microblaze starts using > it. > > Also, tell me more about this microblaze, I'm certainly interested in > new users of dtc... It's a 'soft processor'. Implemented in the fabric of an FPGA. It's a ucLinux target. Xilinx Virtex and Xilinx MicroBlaze targets share a lot of common devices. Cheers, g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. grant.likely@secretlab.ca (403) 399-0195