On Mon, 30 Sep 2013, Rob Herring wrote: > I don't think appended DTB will go away. In fact, use of it is now > being added to flash-kernel in debian/ubuntu. However, this is only > done at OS install time on running on the h/w. Excellent! That is exactly the use case this feature was designed for. Otherwise we would simply have linked the DTB into the kernel image directly. Appending a DTB to zImage should be done at kernel installation time, not at build time. The nuance might not mean a lot for some environment, but for a distro this is clearly separate operations. Nicolas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html