[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/7] fdt: Replace u-boot-dtb.bin with u-boot.bin

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Tue Feb 2 01:05:49 CET 2016


Hi Albert,

On 1 February 2016 at 00:31, Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot at aribaud.net> wrote:
> Hello Simon,
>
> Nitpicking:
>
> On Sun, 31 Jan 2016 18:10:48 -0700, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> wrote:
>
>> The original decision to use a separate u-boot-dtb.bin was aimed at allowing
>> any device tree file to be concatenated to the u-boot.bin image after the
>> build. However this no-longer seems so important. More important is the
>> convenience of using the same output file regardless of the setting for
>> OF_CONTROL.
>
> Maybe explain in a few words why concatenating the DT no long seems
> important, so that readers who were intending to concatenate get a hint
> on what option they should follow instead?

I'm not sure what to say here. If people want to concatenate in a
build system, then they can use u-boot-nodtb.bin for that. Everything
should then work as expected.

Regards,
Simon


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