[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/3] dts: re-write dts/Makefile more simply with Kbuild

[Simon Glass]

Hi Masahiro,

On 18 February 2014 01:27, Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com> wrote:
> Hello Simon,
>
>
>
>> > Useful rules in scripts/Makefile.lib allows us to easily
>> > generate a device tree blob and wrap it in assembly code.
>> >
>> > We do not need to parse a linker script to get output format and arch.
>> >
>> > This commit deletes ./u-boot.dtb since it is a copy of dts/dt.dtb
>>
>> I'd rather have the former and delete the latter temporary file as
>> part of the build. u-boot.dtb is currently a build output.
>
>
> This is what I have said in the thread
> Re: [PATCH] dts: re-write dts/Makefile more simply with Kbuild
>
> We must keep dts/dt.dtb to suppress the re-generation of dts/dt.dtb.

OK. From memory when I did this, it was just a temporary file which
was used to create dts/dt.o. Make deleted it at the end of the build,
I think. But I may remember wrong, and it doesn't matter anyway.

>
> Besides,  dts/dt.dtb is a prerequisite of dts/dt.dtb.S
> when CONFIG_OF_EMBED is enabled.
>
> I believe keeping dts/dt.dtb is reasonable enough.
>
> Better to keep both?

Yes I think so.

Regards,
Simon