[Buildroot] OF FDT compilation support

[Stanislav Bogatyrev]

Hello,

-Choose PowerPC architecture
- In `Linux Kernel` section enable `Compile OpenFirmware Flattened Device Tree`
- Provide a list of board you want to build device trees for, without
.dts extension. The list can be found in arch/powerpc/boot/dts/
- Choose output format
- Provide some options fot device tree compiler if necessary
- Get your device trees in output/images/


Best regards,
Stanislav Bogatyrev aka realloc()



On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:49:06 +0300
> Stanislav Bogatyrev <realloc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Here is a little patch to support OpenFirmware Flattened Device Tree
>> compilation.
>> I didn't found how to do it with vanilla buildroot source, so this is
>> added this to kernel compilation makefile, maybe it's better to put it
>> somewhere else.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Could you describe a typical use case for this ? I.e, how would a
> Buildroot user make use of this new feature ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thomas
> --
> Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
> Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
> development, consulting, training and support.
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