On Wednesday 17 October 2007 3:28:41 pm Grant Likely wrote: > > Including .dtbs in the kernel tree has a big practical problem: > > they're binary, so can't be patch(1)ed, which makes updating them a > > complete PITA.
I note that kconfig includes the lex/yacc output files (blah.c_shipped) so you don't have to have lex and yacc installed to run "menuconfig". It _also_ includes the lex/yacc source which is what you patch and rebuild the _shipped files from when they need to be changed. > > I'm working on merging dtc into the kernel tree instead. > > I'm kind of late to this party; but I have to say I disagree. Most of > us are doing just fine installing the dtc tool (and mkimage tool for > that matter). Cloning it in the kernel tree is just asking for > divergence. Milton Miller has some patches that make a "PPC qemu target" kernel image which doesn't include a device tree, and generates a rom image to boot qemu with which contains a device tree and hands it off to the Linux kernel. If qemu can merge that rom image in its BIOS collection, this approach would meet my immediate needs. > Cheers, > g. Rob -- "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev