[Lenny400] [Mipsbook-devel] Kernel git

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Am 08.04.2015 um 21:34 schrieb Steve Arnold <esteve at gentoogeek.org>:

> On Wed, 8 Apr 2015 14:12:43 +0200
> Paul Boddie <paul at boddie.org.uk> wrote:
> [snip]
> 
>> I'll have to read up about DT and what it means. I suppose the
>> kernel build process takes care of generating the relevant
>> payloads.
> 
> There is a device tree compiler tool called dtc; I think it depends
> on the kernel and/or config,

Yes, it is included in the kernel tree and the kernel makefile takes care
of building dtc and call it.

> but it's usually an additional "make"
> after making a kernel image (and like lzop it's also an external
> dependency you might not see until you get an error message).

Just

ARCH=mips make minipc_defconfig uImage dtbs INSTALL_MOD_PATH=${INSTALL_MOD_PATH} modules modules_install

Results will appear in arch/mips/boot/dts

> 
> It should be packaged in current distros (at least it is in Gentoo)
> although it may not be so current, so LinuxOnArm wiki recommends
> updating to below when working with current mainline DT stuff:
> 
> wget -c https://raw.github.com/RobertCNelson/tools/master/pkgs/dtc.sh
> 
> Upstream in the Gentoo package is devicetree.org:
> 
> http://devicetree.org/Device_Tree_Compiler
> 
> Steve
> 
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