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

Marek Vasut marek.vasut at gmail.com
Sun Sep 24 08:28:18 UTC 2017


On 09/24/2017 05:22 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 09:07:02PM -0500, Robert Nelson wrote:
>> 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...)?
> 
> That is my intention at this point, and I'm testing a small series to do
> that now (the last pain point looks to have been the patch that allows
> 'DTC' to be over-ridden for FreeBSD).

cfr my comment about vendoring , I'd really hate to go down that path.
Chrome does that and look what came out of it -- outdated patched
packages in the chrome codebase, with debian trying hard to unbundle
that stuff again.

-- 
Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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