[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/7] fdt: Replace u-boot-dtb.bin with u-boot.bin

Simon Glass
2016-01-28T03:58:36Z

Hi Hans,

On 25 January 2016 at 13:30, Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> At present u-boot.bin holds the plain U-Boot binary without the device tree.
> This is somewhat annoying since you need either u-boot.bin or u-boot-dtb.bin
> depending on whether device tree is used.
>
> This series adjusts the build such that u-boot.bin includes a device tree,
> and the plain binary is in u-boot-nodtb.bin. For now u-boot-dtb.bin remains
> the same.
>
> This should be acceptable since:
>
> - without OF_CONTROL, u-boot.bin still does not include a device tree
> - with OF_CONTROL, u-boot-dtb.bin does not change
>
> The main impact is build systems which are set up to use u-boot.bin as
> the output file and then add a device tree. These will have to change to use
> u-boot-nodtb.bin instead.
>
> The original decision to use a separate u-boot-dtb.bin was aimed at allowing
> any device tree file to be concatenated to the u-boot.bin image after the
> build. However this no-longer seems so important. More important is the
> convenience of using the same output file regardless of the setting for
> OF_CONTROL.

Do you have any comments on this series please?

>
>
> Simon Glass (7):
> tegra: Drop generation of -nodtb file with OF_CONTROL
> fdt: Build a U-Boot binary without device tree
> fdt: Build an SPL binary without device tree
> tegra: Always build a boot image with the same filename
> socfpga: Simplify Makefile filenames
> Makefile: Make u-boot.img the same as u-boot-dtb.img
> Makefile: Drop unnecessary -dtb suffixes
>
> Makefile | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
> scripts/Makefile.spl | 26 +++++++++++++-------
> 2 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.7.0.rc3.207.g0ac5344
>

Regards,
Simon