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Subject: Re: Top level kvm-userspace directory
	getting	crowded	...	need new dir	for qemu dependencies
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:29:32 -0600
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On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 11:24 -0600, Jerone Young wrote:
> 
> > However, why do we need libfdt?  Is it not carried by distros, or do
> you 
> > need to make changes?
> 
> Well it actually isn't distributed with each distro .. sigh ..
> actually
> this comes from a tool called dtc, compiles/decompiles a device tree.
> Even the linux kernel has it's own version of libfdt ... so it's not
> exactly a central coordinated effort. It's something that kind of gets
> passed from project to project but never stand alone. So we kind of
> have
> to do the same.

It is a centrally co-ordinated effort, but it is not a package a distro
would carry. It is code shared by anything that needs to load a PowerPC
Linux kernel, for example: the kernel bootwrapper (part of the Linux
source tree), u-boot firmware, Xend, and now qemu.

Accordingly, a libfdt.rpm simply doesn't make sense, and the code is
intended to be copied into any codebase that needs it.

-- 
Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center


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