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

Robert Nelson robertcnelson at gmail.com
Sun Sep 24 02:07:02 UTC 2017


On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 8:49 PM, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 12:10 AM, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 03:04:39PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>> On 09/23/2017 02:56 PM, 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.
>>>
>>> What about allowing old DTC version if DTOs are not in use ?
>>
>> If you can re-work the logic for that, sure, thanks!
>>
>
> Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is still at dtc v1.4.0, so it's broken there too.

Maybe it's just time to embed a copy of dtc into u-boot (like the
kernel, especially since we use so many features...)?

the device-tree-compiler package in debian (and thus ubuntu) doesn't
get too much love:

http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/d/device-tree-compiler/unstable_changelog

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
https://rcn-ee.com/


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