From: swarren@wwwdotorg.org (Stephen Warren) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 12:55:19 -0700 Subject: [PATCH V5] kbuild: dtbs_install: new make target In-Reply-To: <1385062552-9882-1-git-send-email-jason@lakedaemon.net> References: <1384201760-16785-1-git-send-email-jason@lakedaemon.net> <1385062552-9882-1-git-send-email-jason@lakedaemon.net> Message-ID: <528E6527.50904@wwwdotorg.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 11/21/2013 12:35 PM, Jason Cooper wrote: > Unlike other build products in the Linux kernel, there is no 'make > *install' mechanism to put devicetree blobs in a standard place. > > This patch is an attempt to fix this problem. Akin to 'make install', > this creates a new make target, dtbs_install. The script that gets > called defers to a distribution or user supplied installdtbs binary, > if found in the system. Otherwise, the default action is to install a > given dtb into > > /boot/devicetrees/${kernel_version}/${dts_filename}.dtb > > This is done to keep dtbs from different kernel versions separate until > things have settled down. Once the dtbs are stable, and not so strongly > linked to the kernel version, the devicetree files will most likely move > to their own repo. Users will need to upgrade install scripts at that > time. Acked-by: Stephen Warren