[0/2] Embed a copy of dtc in the kernel source

[Kumar Gala]

On Oct 30, 2007, at 11:49 PM, David Gibson wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 11:37:15PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>>
>> On Oct 30, 2007, at 10:24 PM, David Gibson wrote:
>>
>>> These two patches are a respin of my previous patch to merge a  
>>> copy of
>>> dtc into the kernel tree, so that kernel builds no longer depend  
>>> on an
>>> externally installed copy of dtc.
>>>
>>> This respin embeds a newer revision of dtc, and incorporates Sam
>>> Ravnborg's preferred approach to Makefile integration.  Also,  
>>> since so
>>> many people whinged about it last time, I've split the patch into  
>>> two
>>> parts, the first is the too-large-for-the-list patch just verbatim
>>> adding files and the second has the changes to existing kernel files
>>> to build and use the embedded code.
>>
>> What about doing part of this via git-submodule?
>
> Uh.. where do I find out what that does?  My version of git (Ubuntu
> gutsy) doesn't seem to know anything about it...

Take a look at:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-submodule.html

- k