Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] Include and build libfdt

[Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>]

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.