[PATCH] [POWERPC] add target for building .dtb files

[Scott Wood]

Grant Erickson wrote:
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile
>> index d57a67d..fb29f10 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile
>> @@ -311,6 +311,10 @@ $(obj)/treeImage.initrd.%: vmlinux $(dtstree)/%.dts
>> $(wrapperbits)
>>  $(obj)/treeImage.%: vmlinux $(dtstree)/%.dts $(wrapperbits)
>> $(call if_changed,wrap,treeboot-$*,$(dtstree)/$*.dts)
>>  
>> +# Rule to build device tree blobs
>> +$(obj)/%.dtb: $(dtstree)/%.dts $(obj)/dtc
>> + $(obj)/dtc -O dtb -o $(obj)/$*.dtb -b 0 $(dtstree)/$*.dts
>> +
> 
> Grant,
> 
> Would it be beneficial to provide a way to have environment- or
> command-line-provided DTC arguments/flags such that the oft-required '-S
> <size>' and '-R <reserved>' flags can be specified? Or, are there reasonable
> size and reserved defaults appropriate for all platforms that can be
> specified?

These aren't required for the bootwrapper, which is the main purpose of 
the bootwrapper makefile...

> FWIW, generating a blob for Haleakala/Kilauea on the PPC405EX[r] using the
> above command in the patch results in complaints about lack of space for the
> "CHOSEN" node in u-boot.

U-boot should be fixed to not need this.  It's ridiculous.

-Scott