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Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:23:06 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] Include and build libfdt
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To: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>, Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Glauber Costa wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 06:38:12PM +0100, Paul Brook wrote:
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>> Inlcude libfdt in source tree, and build it if not already available.
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> what makes libfdt different than everything else that we link with?
> Why do we have to have a in-tree copy of that?
>   

Yeah, I had the same comment and withheld it while I considered it.

libfdt isn't widely available as a distro package. Historically, it's 
been part of dtc and not available for independent download/installation.

It's a tough call.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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