[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/8] rely on latest dtc, simplify

Tom Rini trini at ti.com
Wed Jun 12 00:09:52 CEST 2013


On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:36:14AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 06/11/2013 10:19 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 05:16:56PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> > 
> >> From: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
> >> 
> >> This is a series of patches which simplifies the rules to build
> >> *.dts in U-Boot by relying on features in the latest dtc. The
> >> include rules are made more consistent between cpp (when
> >> processing *.dts) and dtc. The cpp flags are made more consistent
> >> with the way the kernel processes *.dts to allow better
> >> portability of *.dts between the two.
> > 
> > Please add a dtc-version Makefile variable and corresponding 
> > tools/dtc-version.sh script, ala gcc/binutils so that we can error
> > out gracefully if dtc isn't supporting the options we need.
> 
> Hmm. dtc doesn't really seem to do releases. Hence, there's no version
> number available to check for here:-( (i.e. the features this series
> rely on were added after 1.3.0, which is the most recent, but quite
> old, tagged release).
> 
> I suppose I could ping them yet again on tagging a release...

Yeah, I can imagine a release might also help encourage distributions to
update...

-- 
Tom
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