Merge dtc

[Grant Likely]

On 10/16/07, David Gibson <dwg at au1.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 07:17:01AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> > On 10/15/07, David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> > > This very large patch incorporates a copy of dtc into the kernel
> > > source, in arch/powerpc/boot/dtc-src.  This means that dtc is no
> > > longer an external dependency to build kernels with configurations
> > > which need a dtb file.
> >
> > Powerpc is probably not going to be the only user of dtc.  Microblaze
> > will be using it too.  Can it be put somewhere more common?
>
> Well, I guess we can move it to scripts/ when microblaze starts using
> it.
>
> Also, tell me more about this microblaze, I'm certainly interested in
> new users of dtc...

It's a 'soft processor'.  Implemented in the fabric of an FPGA.  It's
a ucLinux target.  Xilinx Virtex and Xilinx MicroBlaze targets share a
lot of common devices.

Cheers,
g.

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