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

Tom Rini trini at ti.com
Wed Jun 19 14:46:17 CEST 2013


On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 12:19:52PM -0400, 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.

For clarity, we need some sort of graceful error-out, be it version
check or flag-is-supported check.  I fear this is going to lead to a
lot of people not being able to compile and I'd like to be able to give
a clear error message.

-- 
Tom
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