From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:18:50 +1000 From: David Gibson To: Kumar Gala Subject: Re: Merge dtc Message-ID: <20071016051850.GB9052@localhost.localdomain> References: <20071016050217.GA9052@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 12:08:06AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: > > On Oct 16, 2007, at 12:02 AM, 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. > > > > Signed-off-by: David Gibson > > > > Too big for the list, full patch at > > http://ozlabs.org/~dgibson/home/merge-dtc.patch > > Dare I ask why we are including dtc in the kernel source tree? We Well, we aren't unless Paul merges it.. > don't really have precedence for this and there are users outside of > linux for dtc. Because having dtc as an external dependency is inconvenient. This is supposed to remain an embedded copy of dtc, not become the main dtc repository. -- David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson