Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Copy bootable images in the default install script

["Grant Likely" <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 08:28:56AM -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
>>On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 05:57:20PM -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
>>> >From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
>>> >
>>> >This patch makes the default install script (arch/powerpc/boot/install.sh)
>>> >copy the bootable image files into the install directory.  Before this
>>> >patch only the vmlinux image file was copied.
>>>
>>> What do you do for cases where there isn't a single file?  E.g. a
>>> canyonlands board will need both the uImage and caynonlands.dtb files
>>> to be "installed".  U-Boot needs to be provided with both of them.
>>
>>That is exactly what this patch does.  It copies all of the image
>>files in $(image-y).
>
> Well, it would if the .dtb files were includes in image-y, but they
> aren't.  Anyway, that doesn't seem to be a bug or short-coming of the
> patch itself, so this looks good to me.

But there is nothing preventing the .dtb files being added to image-y.
 If you add them, they will be built and copied.  :-)

g.

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Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.