[U-Boot] [PATCH] kbuild: get back DTB at the top directory

[Masahiro Yamada]

Hello Simon,


> Well some build systems may take the u-boot.dtb and package it up with
> U-Boot in a different way. Also they may look inside this file to find
> out things about the board they are targeting. For example, you might
> imagine a flash program which gets flash programming parameters from
> this file so it knows how to flash the board.
> 
> I don't consider something in the dts/ directory to be a build product
> really. I suspect one day we might support multiple .dtb files in
> U-Boot and select between them based on a setting or a hardware
> feature, and in that case perhaps everything will be put in a FIT, but
> we are not there yet.
> 
> But for now I see the .dtb file as a first-class build product just
> like the main U-Boot binary.

Then, I agreed to include this version to the main line.
Thanks for your answering.

I confirmed this patch can apply on
commit 1674df60 + Follow-up for Kbuild series v2.


Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada