[PATCH 10/10] zImage wrapper for Ebony

[Mark A. Greer]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 04:36:26PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> This patch adds support for building a zImage wrapper suitable for the
> Ebony (440GP) evaluation board.  This supports booting both from uboot
> (old versions which don't supply a flattened device tree) and IBM
> Openbios (aka "treeboot").

<snip>

> Index: working-2.6/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile
> ===================================================================
> --- working-2.6.orig/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile	2007-04-18 14:42:52.000000000 +1000
> +++ working-2.6/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile	2007-04-18 14:43:14.000000000 +1000

<snip>

> @@ -159,6 +168,21 @@ $(obj)/zImage.ps3: vmlinux
>  $(obj)/zImage.initrd.ps3: vmlinux
>  	@echo "  WARNING zImage.initrd.ps3 not supported (yet)"
>  
> +$(obj)/zImage.ebony-elf: vmlinux $(wrapperbits) $(obj)/ebony.dtb
> +	$(call if_changed,wrap,ebony,,$(obj)/ebony.dtb)
> +
> +$(obj)/zImage.initrd.ebony-elf: vmlinux $(wrapperbits) $(obj)/ebony.dtb $(obj)/ramdisk.image.gz
> +	$(call if_changed,wrap,ebony,,$(obj)/ebony.dtb,$(obj)/ramdisk.img.gz)
> +
> +$(obj)/zImage.ebony: vmlinux $(wrapperbits) $(obj)/ebony.dtb $(obj)/mktree
> +	$(call if_changed,wrap,ebony-tree,,$(obj)/ebony.dtb)
> +
> +$(obj)/zImage.initrd.ebony: vmlinux $(wrapperbits) $(obj)/ebony.dtb $(obj)/mktree
> +	$(call if_changed,wrap,ebony-tree,,$(obj)/ebony.dtb,$(obj)/ramdisk.img.gz)
> +
> +$(obj)/uImage.ebony: vmlinux $(wrapperbits)  $(obj)/ebony.dtb
> +	$(call if_changed,wrap,ebony-uboot,,$(obj)/ebony.dtb)
> +
>  $(obj)/uImage: vmlinux $(wrapperbits)
>  	$(call if_changed,wrap,uboot)

Hi David,

It would be better to write generic rules for dtb sort of thing like
what Milton did (and what I did in "[PATCH] powerpc: Add Makefile rule
to wrap dts file in zImage")?  It'll keep our Makefile much cleaner
over the long run.

Mark