[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/4] Add support for appended device tree blobs for arm

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Jul 16 13:10:06 UTC 2012


Le Tue,  3 Jul 2012 12:01:14 +0200,
Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com> a écrit :

> +config BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_APPENDED_DTB
> +	bool "Append the Device Tree binary to the kernel"
> +	depends on BR2_arm || BR2_armeb
> +	help
> +	  After building the device tree blob, append it to the
> +	  kernel image. If necessary generates a uImage from that
> +	  new kernel image afterward.

Just got another idea here. Since cuImage and simpleImage on PowerPC
and Microblaze bundle their DTB, can't we define the Appended DTB
feature as an additional kernel image type?

I.e, on ARM, you would typically have:

	zImage
	zImage + appended DTB
	uImage
	uImage + appended DTB

Thomas
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