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From: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg•org>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel•crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba•org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse•cz>,
	linux-arch@vger•kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda•com>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V7 1/7] kbuild: centralize .dts->.dtb rule
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 11:33:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50B65903.1050400@wwwdotorg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1354058956-7199-1-git-send-email-swarren@wwwdotorg.org>

On 11/27/2012 04:29 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> All architectures that use cmd_dtc do so in almost the same way. Create
> a central build rule to avoid duplication. The one difference is that
> most current uses of dtc build $(obj)/%.dtb from $(src)/dts/%.dts rather
> than building the .dtb in the same directory as the .dts file. This
> difference will be eliminated arch-by-arch in future patches.
> 
> MIPS is the exception here; it already uses the exact same rule as the
> new common rule, so the duplicate is removed in this patch to avoid any
> conflict. arch/mips changes courtesy of Ralf Baechle.
> 
> Update Documentation/kbuild to remove the explicit call to cmd_dtc from
> the example, now that the rule exists in a centralized location.

Ben, Paul,

Following this patch (http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/27/555), I posted a
series of patches to convert almost all architectures to using the
centralized rule. The one architecture I didn't convert was PowerPC.

I didn't convert it because arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile contains a large
number of rules (to generate *Image.% where % is a board name) that
depend on %.dtb, which is expected to be in arch/powerpc/boot rather
than arch/powerpc/boot/dts. Now, I guess it's possible to convert them
all to expect the .dtb files to be in dts/ and also have
arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile call make in boot/dts/ to make each required
.dtb file. However, the patch would be a bit larger than all the other
architecture patches. Do you want me to do that conversion, or would you
rather I leave PowerPC alone? Thanks for any feedback.

       reply	other threads:[~2012-11-28 18:43 UTC|newest]

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     [not found] <1354058956-7199-1-git-send-email-swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
2012-11-28 18:33 ` Stephen Warren [this message]
2012-11-28 23:28   ` [PATCH V7 1/7] kbuild: centralize .dts->.dtb rule Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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