Subject: Re: DTC 1.0.0 Release Coming?

From: Geoff Levand <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:24:42 -0700

Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>>>> Actually, after discussions with Stephen and Paulus, we decided not 
>>>> to
>>>> take this route.  In any case having Kbuild like versioning wouldn't
>>>> actually help us any in integrating into a full Kbuild system.
>>>
>>> Can you elaborate why you decided not to?  I'm just curious.
>>
>> We decided that since a formal dtc release was imminent, it would be
>> simpler to make dtc a new kernel build requirement,
> 
> For _all_ kernel builds?  Most people building a powerpc
> kernel don't need it.

The dtc is run from the wrapper script, so if you build for a platform
that uses a dts source file, then you'll need the dtc.  If you don't
build for one of those platforms, then you won't needed it.

So a 'make allXXXconfig' needs the dtc to be installed since it
builds platforms that use dts source files.

-Geoff