[U-Boot] [PATCH] fdt: fix out of tree builds with DT support

[Stephen Warren]

On 04/19/2012 12:38 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Simon Glass,
> 
> In message <CAPnjgZ2-kzLW2-WdBk2qmezurJBPzT1vAHnxrf7RHZ_Xfw6YbA at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>>
>> Fair enough. I hope that doesn't preclude us from using new features
>> for too long.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Most distributions appear to pick up such changes not too fast, so we
> may run into issues here and there.  I think we should decide this on
> a case by case base - here it was a trivial change to the existing
> code that fixed the problem.

The kernel deals with this by packaging a copy of dtc (the source) as
part of the kernel source tree. Then, it can upgrade to new features as
soon as they're needed without any distro dependency.