On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 4:37 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux linux@arm.linux.org.uk wrote:
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 07:37:10PM -0600, Joel A Fernandes wrote:
Hello, I've been spinning some work-in-progress patches for FIT build support in the kernel. With the move to multiplatform support on OMAP, I feel it is a good time to add FIT support, also looking at the proliferating number of dtbs, as it is a nice way
I'm not looking to add yet another crappy uboot image format to the kernel just for the hell of uboot.
And don't think that the dtbs in the kernel are going to stay there. The longer term plan is for them to end up in an external git tree, entirely separate from the kernel source. So anything that ties them with the kernel build process will ultimately have to be removed again.
Sorry for hopping in late as I have been travelling.
Guess much has been said, but for courtesy sake till dts/u-boot build support is dropped, would you consider accepting a simple extension to mkuboot.sh with minimal Kbuild changes? I can promise there will be quite a few users.
Lots of folks want embedded device trees and there are already out of tree hacks floating as you know that do this. FIT approach to this is more cleaner I feel.
Let me know what you can do.
Thanks, Joel