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

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Sat Sep 23 17:53:50 UTC 2017


On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 07:43:09PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> 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.

Nope and nor will it catch old-stable breaking in January when gcc-6.x
or newer is required.

-- 
Tom
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