Commit 1b627289 authored by Ricardo B. Marliere's avatar Ricardo B. Marliere Committed by Masahiro Yamada
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docs: kbuild: add INSTALL_DTBS_PATH 



The documentation for kbuild and makefiles is missing an explanation of
a variable important for some architectures.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRicardo B. Marliere <ricardo@marliere.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
parent 7aef8f76

Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst

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The value can be overridden in which case the default value is ignored.



INSTALL_DTBS_PATH

-----------------

INSTALL_DTBS_PATH specifies where to install device tree blobs for

relocations required by build roots.  This is not defined in the

makefile but the argument can be passed to make if needed.



KBUILD_ABS_SRCTREE

--------------------------------------------------

Kbuild uses a relative path to point to the tree when possible. For instance,

Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst

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  INSTALL_MOD_STRIP value will be used as the option(s) to the strip

  command.



INSTALL_DTBS_PATH

  This variable specifies a prefix for relocations required by build

  roots. It defines a place for installing the device tree blobs. Like

  INSTALL_MOD_PATH, it isn't defined in the Makefile, but can be passed

  by the user if desired. Otherwise it defaults to the kernel install

  path.



Makefile language

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