From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Warren Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 16:00:30 -0700 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/7] fdt: Replace u-boot-dtb.bin with u-boot.bin In-Reply-To: <1454289055-17054-1-git-send-email-sjg@chromium.org> References: <1454289055-17054-1-git-send-email-sjg@chromium.org> Message-ID: <56AFE38E.1060502@wwwdotorg.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On 01/31/2016 06:10 PM, Simon Glass 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 if > enabled, 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 to 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. The series, Tested-by: Stephen Warren