dts 编译过程,如何将DTS Linux设备树源文件编译为DTB？

I have a device tree file (.dts) and I want to compile the file for my powerpc based board.

How can I do it on my machine, which is not powerpc based?? Can I do it with the DTC installed on my Ubuntu system? Or will it be more like using a separate compiler and passing ARCH information (like using a toolchain)?

解决方案

Device trees do not need to be compiled with "architecture-aware" tools. The dtc compiler on your ubuntu machine is probably current enough to compile your device tree. Or you can download the latest source and compile it yourself. The dtc compiler can be found here:

There are some good documents in that package that will help you better understand device trees in general.

It's pretty easy to compile (and disassemble) device trees. For example

$ dtc -O dtb -o p4080ds.dtb p4080ds.dts

To get the device tree in text from from the device tree blob, do this:

$ dtc -I dtb -O dts p4080ds.dtb

Hope this helps!