From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-out.m-online.net (mail-out.m-online.net [212.18.0.10]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C122D474C2 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:47:05 +1100 (EST) To: Rob Gubler From: Wolfgang Denk Subject: Re: Ebony DTS compile error Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-reply-to: References: Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:47:01 +0100 Message-Id: <20090124014701.71561832E425@gemini.denx.de> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Dear Rob Gubler, in message you wrote: > > I'm an ELDK 4.2 user. I'm trying to compile the ebony.dts file included in > the 2.6.24 kernel but the Device Tree Compiler, dtc, complains of a syntax > error. Yes, there is a version conflict. The 2.6.24 kernel still uses an old dts format, which is incompatible with recent dtc versiosn. > Is anyone aware of a version of DTC that will compile the ebony.dts file > included with the 2.6.24 kernel? Or, an updated ebony.dts file that works > with DTC 1.2.0-gb2b4990b. Any other suggestions would be great. Thanks! Is there any specific reson for you to use the old 2.6.24 kernel? If not, I'd recommend that you clone the git repository and use recent code - this will build fine with current versions of the dtc. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@denx.de What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature. - Voltaire