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

Marek Vasut marek.vasut at gmail.com
Sat Sep 23 17:43:09 UTC 2017


On 09/23/2017 07:37 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> 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).

And it will likely stay that way for debian stable. I am really
disappointed in the "Shrug" reaction to such massive breakage.

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Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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