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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] Include and build libfdt
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Glauber Costa |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] Include and build libfdt |
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Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:41:14 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.4.2.2i |
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 08:27:30PM +0100, Paul Brook wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 June 2009, Glauber Costa wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 06:38:12PM +0100, Paul Brook wrote:
> > > Inlcude libfdt in source tree, and build it if not already available.
> >
> > what makes libfdt different than everything else that we link with?
> > Why do we have to have a in-tree copy of that?
>
> AFAIK libfdt is still absent from current releases of common mainstream
> distros[1], and qemu is going to become increasingly useless without it.
This is an argument for both including it in our source release,
and pushing it to get shipped as a stand alone package. I believe the later
is a much more sane approach long term
>
> c.f. dtc where we use the system version.
>
> Paul
>
> [1] We can argue about what constitutes sufficiently wide acceptance, but
> IMHO
> Fedora, Ubuntu and Debian Sid would be a fairly good start.
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] Add device tree machine, Paul Brook, 2009/06/10