kbuild: dtbs_install: new make target

Unlike other build products in the Linux kernel, there is no 'make
*install' mechanism to put devicetree blobs in a standard place.

This commit adds a new 'dtbs_install' make target which copies all of
the dtbs into the INSTALL_DTBS_PATH directory. INSTALL_DTBS_PATH can be
set before calling make to change the default install directory. If not
set then it defaults to:

	$INSTALL_PATH/dtbs/$KERNELRELEASE.

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.

v7: (reworked by Grant Likely)
- Moved rules from arch/arm/Makefile to arch/arm/boot/dts/Makefile so
  that each dtb install could have a separate target and be reported as
  part of the make output.
- Fixed dependency problem to ensure $KERNELRELEASE is calculated before
  attempting to install
- Removed option to call external script. Copying the files should be
  sufficient and a build system can post-process the install directory.
  Despite the fact an external script is used for installing the kernel,
  I don't think that is a pattern that should be encouraged. I would
  rather see buildroot type tools post process the install directory to
  rename or move dtb files after installing to a staging directory.
  - Plus it is easy to add a hook after the fact without blocking the
    rest of this feature.
- Move the helper targets into scripts/Makefile.lib with the rest of the
  common dtb rules

Signed-off-by: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/Makefile b/arch/arm/Makefile
index 08a9ef58d9c3..fddf4beaee45 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/Makefile
@@ -310,9 +310,9 @@ $(INSTALL_TARGETS):
 %.dtb: | scripts
 	$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(boot)/dts MACHINE=$(MACHINE) $(boot)/dts/$@
 
-PHONY += dtbs
-dtbs: scripts
-	$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(boot)/dts MACHINE=$(MACHINE) dtbs
+PHONY += dtbs dtbs_install
+dtbs dtbs_install: prepare scripts
+	$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(boot)/dts MACHINE=$(MACHINE) $@
 
 # We use MRPROPER_FILES and CLEAN_FILES now
 archclean:
@@ -331,6 +331,7 @@ define archhelp
   echo  '  bootpImage    - Combined zImage and initial RAM disk'
   echo  '                  (supply initrd image via make variable INITRD=<path>)'
   echo  '* dtbs          - Build device tree blobs for enabled boards'
+  echo  '  dtbs_install  - Install dtbs to $(INSTALL_DTBS_PATH)'
   echo  '  install       - Install uncompressed kernel'
   echo  '  zinstall      - Install compressed kernel'
   echo  '  uinstall      - Install U-Boot wrapped compressed kernel'