[PATCH 0/5] [U/master-next] [Packaging] arm*: move dbts to /boot/dtb-$(uname -r)

Paolo Pisati paolo.pisati at canonical.com
Wed Aug 27 16:29:23 UTC 2014


On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 11:21:23AM -0500, Robert Nelson wrote:
>
> I know this is just more bike-shed painting.. But any reason why the
> mainline kernel location was not chosen: ( i know fedora is one of the
> main drives behind fixing u-boot (distro defaults), so there location
> makes sense.. )
> 
> from: https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/DeviceTreeConsolidation
> 
> kernel make install
> /boot/dtbs/$(uname -r)
> 
> fedora
> /boot/dtb-$(uname -r)
> 
> Debian
> /usr/lib/linux-image-$(uname -r)

nothing in particular:

at first i thought dumping all DTBs under /boot/dtbs/$version was a good idea,
but since we already use a /boot/$FILE-$version scheme for vmlinuz and initrd,
replicating it with a /boot/dtb-$version made sense.
-- 
bye,
p.




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