[U-Boot] python3 support for pylibfdt

[Tom Rini]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 11:45:02AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 7:22 PM Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 10:39:54AM +0100, Peter Robinson 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.

-- 
Tom
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