[U-Boot] python3 support for pylibfdt

[Simon Glass]

Hi Peter,

On Wed, 28 Aug 2019 at 05:46, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Simon,
>
> > > > > > > With the EOL of python2 soon I've been looking at the Fedora U-Boot
> > > > > > > builds to see what it would take to move over to python3. There's a
> > > > > > > couple of issues building the bundled pylibfdt, the first is the
> > > > > > > Makefile hard codes python2, the second is that the generated
> > > > > > > libfdt_wrap.c doesn't seem to find the python3 version of Python.h
> > > > > > > (errors below).
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > It seems upstream now supports building pylibfdt with dtc 1.5.0 but I
> > > > > > > couldn't quite work out how this fits into the U-Boot bundled version.
> > > > > > > Is there plans to be able to support pylibfdt with python3?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Sounds like we need to run the normal kernel script to re-sync with
> > > > > > upstream?  Thanks!
> > > > >
> > > > > Seems reasonable, I'll keep an eye out for a patch series to test,
> > > > > it's quite straight forward to test from my PoV.
> > > >
> > > > It won't be any time soon, sadly.  Updating to the same dtc in the
> > > > kernel (so just v1.4.7+) causes both massive amount of new device tree
> > > > warnings as well as several fail to link due to size growth problems.
> > >
> > > For reference the kernel moved to v1.5.0-30-g702c1b6c0e73 in the 5.3
> > > merge window.
> >
> > Also I sent a series for libfdt to reduce the size, as a first step to
> > syncing up U-Boot again. It needs work, but I expect to get back to it
> > next week.
>
> What's the latest on this?

No new progress but I just emailed David again about my pending question.

Regards,
Simon