[PATCH 1/2] qemu platform, v2

[Grant Likely]

On 10/18/07, Milton Miller <miltonm at bga.com> wrote:
> On Oct 18, 2007, at 4:59 AM, Matt Sealey wrote:
> > Which begs the question; why cloning?
> >
> > Why can't development be MOVED to in-kernel?
>
> Because we don't put userspace testsuites there for one.
>
> And its a stand alone tool and should have its own packaging for a
> second (ie the kernel provides the kernel and modules, but not random
> user space utilities, in its tarbal).
>
> If we say only some boards or ports are special and need to build then
> I would vote for shipping asm files.  If we think we need to build any
> random embedded platform without installing dtc then we should merge
> dtc.

I don't think we do.  It's looking like there are going to be out of
tree users of dtc also (The are some patches floating around for
u-boot to use the device tree for it's own initialization).  I don't
think it's unreasonable to install dtc for embedded development.

I like the idea of shipping asm files to support the qemu target; at
least until qemu gets better firmware.

Cheers,
g.

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