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From: Ahmad Fatoum <ahmad@a3f.at>
To: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] fixup! Documentation: document barebox device tree handling
Date: Tue,  1 Oct 2019 08:28:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191001062853.1256-3-ahmad@a3f.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191001062853.1256-1-ahmad@a3f.at>

---
 Documentation/devicetree/index.rst | 17 ++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/index.rst b/Documentation/devicetree/index.rst
index 3b911c5a9d42..908652642b9a 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/index.rst
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ They are located under the top-level ``dts/`` directory.
 
 Patches against ``dts/`` and its subdirectories are not accepted upstream.
 
-.. _kernel.org  device-tree repository: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/devicetree/devicetree-rebasing.git/
+.. _kernel.org Split device-tree repository: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/devicetree/devicetree-rebasing.git/
 
 barebox Device Trees
 --------------------
@@ -34,21 +34,24 @@ environment or boot-time device configuration.
 Device Tree Compiler
 --------------------
 
-barebox makes use of the ``dtc`` and ``fdtget`` utilities from the `Device-Tree
-Compiler`_ project.
+barebox makes use of the ``dtc`` and ``fdtget`` and the underlying ``libfdt``
+from the `Device-Tree Compiler`_ project.
 
 .. _Device-Tree Compiler: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dtc/dtc.git
 
-These utilities are built as part of the barebox build process.
+These utilities are built as part of the barebox build process. Additionally,
+libfdt is compiled once more as part of the ``CONFIG_BOARD_ARM_GENERIC_DT``
+if selected.
 
-Steps to update ``dtc``:
+Steps to update ``scripts/dtc``:
 
 * Place a ``git-checkout`` of the upstream ``dtc`` directory in the parent
   directory of your barebox ``git-checkout``.
 * Run ``scripts/dtc/update-dtc-source.sh`` from the top-level barebox directory.
 * Wait till ``dtc`` build, test, install and commit conclude.
-* If ``scripts/dtc/Makefile`` changes are necessary, apply them manually in
-  a commit preceding the ``dtc`` update.
+* Compile-test with ``CONFIG_BOARD_ARM_GENERIC_DT=y``.
+* If ``scripts/dtc/Makefile`` or barebox include file changes are necessary,
+  apply them manually in a commit preceding the ``dtc`` update.
 
 barebox-specific Bindings
 -------------------------
-- 
2.20.1


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-10-01  6:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-01  6:28 [PATCH 0/2] dtc: fix breakage of in-barebox libfdt Ahmad Fatoum
2019-10-01  6:28 ` [PATCH 1/2] lib: fdt: define INT32_MAX for in-barebox use Ahmad Fatoum
2019-10-01  6:28 ` Ahmad Fatoum [this message]
2019-10-02  6:48 ` [PATCH 0/2] dtc: fix breakage of in-barebox libfdt Sascha Hauer

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