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From: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: Merge dtc
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:08:06 -0500
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
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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 <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
>
> 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  
don't really have precedence for this and there are users outside of  
linux for dtc.

- k