linux-dev - Linux kernel development work

Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author	Files	Lines
2009-05-02	Move dtc and libfdt sources from arch/powerpc/boot to scripts/dtc	David Gibson	1	-226/+0
	The powerpc kernel always requires an Open Firmware like device tree to supply device information. On systems without OF, this comes from a flattened device tree blob. This blob is usually generated by dtc, a tool which compiles a text description of the device tree into the flattened format used by the kernel. Sometimes, the bootwrapper makes small changes to the pre-compiled device tree blob (e.g. filling in the size of RAM). To do this it uses the libfdt library. Because these are only used on powerpc, the code for both these tools is included under arch/powerpc/boot (these were imported and are periodically updated from the upstream dtc tree). However, the microblaze architecture, currently being prepared for merging to mainline also uses dtc to produce device tree blobs. A few other archs have also mentioned some interest in using dtc. Therefore, this patch moves dtc and libfdt from arch/powerpc into scripts, where it can be used by any architecture. The vast bulk of this patch is a literal move, the rest is adjusting the various Makefiles to use dtc and libfdt correctly from their new locations. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-20	powerpc: Update in-kernel dtc and libfdt to version 1.2.0	David Gibson	1	-23/+18
	Some time ago, a copies of the upstream dtc and libfdt sources were included in the kernel tree to avoid having these as external dependencies for building the kernel. Since then development on the upstream dtc and libfdt has continued. This updates the in-kernel versions to match the recently released upstream dtc version 1.2.0. This includes a number of bugfixes, many cleanups and a few new features. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-12-20	[POWERPC] Merge dtc upstream source	David Gibson	1	-0/+231
	This incorporates a copy of dtc into the kernel source, in arch/powerpc/boot/dtc-src. This commit only imports the upstream sources verbatim, a later commit will actually link it into the kernel Makefiles and use the embedded code during the kernel build. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>