[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/6] Rework support for the device tree

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Fri Jul 27 19:45:14 UTC 2012


On 07/17/12 14:27, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> This patch introduces some support for device tree-enabled kernels.
>
> It replaces the former BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_DTS_FILE option that was
> microblaze-only, that was quite limited. This option was quite
> limited, first obviously because it was restricted to microblaze,
> but also because it targetted only external device tree source files,
> and allowed only to build simpleImages using the custom image name
> mechanism.
>
> This patch adds a much more generic one, that can work on basically
> every architecture that supports device tree. It allows to build
> both device tree source file that comes with the kernel source or to
> set the path to the device tree file to use so that one can use a
> custom device tree.
>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard<maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com>

Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be>

  Really nice!

  The BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_DTB_IS_SELF_BUILT part actually belongs to
patch 4/6, but that's a minor detail.

  Regards,
  Arnout
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