[U-Boot] Makefile: Update minimum dtc version to 1.4.3

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Sat Sep 23 17:37:25 UTC 2017


On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 07:33:44PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 09/23/2017 07:05 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 08:56:08AM -0400, Tom Rini wrote:
> >> On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 12:39:44PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >>> On 09/22/2017 04:20 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> >>>> On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 01:15:25PM -0400, Tom Rini wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> With support for overlays and calling the -@ flag to dtc we need to have
> >>>>> at least 1.4.3 available now.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Cc: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> >>>>> Reported-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org>
> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
> >>>>
> >>>> Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!
> >>>
> >>> Debian still only has 1.4.2 even in unstable, so u-boot/master no longer
> >>> builds on any debian system.
> >>
> >> Then perhaps we need to mirror the kernel and provide / build dtc, but
> >> allow for people to override it.
> > 
> > This isn't too hard and I'm pushing that through Jenkins now to confirm
> > I've got all the logic correct.  I think this will be the least error
> > prone method long term.
> 
> NAK, this is the same thing which chromium does and what Debian is
> trying to stop -- vendoring. We will end up with patched custom DTC out
> of sync with upstream.

Shrug, it's what Linux does, and what QEMU does, and probably what other
projects do as well since apparently even Debian/Unstable is 2 releases
and nearly a year behind (or, 9 months if you don't want to exaggerate).

-- 
Tom
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