[PATCH] powerpc: Copy bootable images in the default install script

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Jan 7 03:12:06 EST 2009


On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 08:28:56AM -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 05:57:20PM -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
>> >From: Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca>
>> >
>> >This patch makes the default install script (arch/powerpc/boot/install.sh)
>> >copy the bootable image files into the install directory.  Before this
>> >patch only the vmlinux image file was copied.
>>
>> What do you do for cases where there isn't a single file?  E.g. a
>> canyonlands board will need both the uImage and caynonlands.dtb files
>> to be "installed".  U-Boot needs to be provided with both of them.
>
>That is exactly what this patch does.  It copies all of the image
>files in $(image-y).

Well, it would if the .dtb files were includes in image-y, but they
aren't.  Anyway, that doesn't seem to be a bug or short-coming of the
patch itself, so this looks good to me.

Acked-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

josh



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