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

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 09:38:17AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 06/19/2013 06:46 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I've implemented this check and have the patches ready. I'm just
> waiting for a dtc release that has all the required features, so that
> there actually is a version number the code can check for.
> 
> It sounds like there's agreement to make the dtc release by the end of
> this week, unless anyone comes forward and objects, and they haven't
> yet:-)

Sounds good to me, thanks!

-- 
Tom
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