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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] Split off mini-os to a separate tree
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:08:11 +0000
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On Tue, 2015-01-27 at 14:48 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > 2. xen/common/libfdt
> > 3. xen/include/xen/libfdt
> 
> libdft is its own project.  I have no idea why we have a copy of it in
> xen.git.  I think this is wrong.

This is for use by (i.e. linking into) the Xen kernel, not the tools
etc. It's common to embed libfdt in this way for kernel uses, since we
can't really use link against libfdt.so (or even .a) like you would
normally.

For the tools side we do use the libfdt.so from the system.

Ian.