Merge dtc

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 09:21:21 +1100
Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org> wrote:

> David Woodhouse writes:
> 
> > I think this is a bad idea -- it's hardly a difficult for those people
> > who _do_ need dts to obtain it separately.
> 
> The trouble is that it's not just people who are making a kernel for a
> specific embedded board that need dtc.  These days anyone who wants to
> try cross-compiling a powerpc kernel and does a make allyesconfig, or
> who picks cell_defconfig or ps3_defconfig to try, needs dtc if their
> kernel build is to go all the way through and give them an exit status
> of 0.  I can see that for people who are trying to do the right thing
> and compile-test their patch across architectures, it's annoying that
> powerpc has an extra external requirement when no other architecture
> does, and it usually just means they don't compile-test on powerpc.
> 
> Of the various options for solving this, including dtc in the kernel
> sources seems best to me.

Using that same reasoning, should we merge a mkimage patch for the
boards that use U-Boot?

(That's a serious question, not a smart-ass response)

josh