[PATCH 1/3] Add support for binary includes.

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Tue Jan 8 04:25:03 EST 2008


On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 09:24:32AM -0600, Jon Loeliger wrote:
> So, like, the other day David Gibson mumbled:
> > 
> > 
> > Hrm.  Can we leave this one until after 1.1?   Since it adds new
> > syntax, I think it would be worth cogitating a bit longer.
> 
> Double hrm.
> 
> Scott, can you remind us why this feature was requested
> off the U-Boot list, please?  I'm trying to decide if we
> really do want to get it into the 1.1 release.

U-boot wants it because they're planning on using device trees as their
new multi-image format.

I implemented it for a similar, but different reason -- passing guest
device trees to a hypervisor within a hypervisor config tree.

-Scott



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