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From: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@linaro.org>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: aliguori@us.ibm.com, kim.phillips@freescale.com, jdl@jdl.com,
	hollisb@us.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] fdt: update embedded header file from upstream to fix compilation
Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 14:52:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5188F916.5070500@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA-GbfQAUn-ZePPjHyM4X4P50Lm=aXGOY9E5Xe9r4VtA9Q@mail.gmail.com>

On 05/07/2013 02:44 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 7 May 2013 13:36, Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@linaro.org> wrote:
>> Upstream dtc.git introduced a change in libfdt_env.h, which breaks
>> compilation with QEMU's version of it:
>>
>>    CC arm-softmmu/device_tree.o
>> In file included from /usr/include/libfdt.h:55:0,
>>                   from /src/qemu.git/device_tree.c:28:
>> /usr/include/fdt.h:7:2: error: unknown type name 'fdt32_t'
>>     ...
>
> I'm not entirely sure I understand why we need change.
> Have upstream really introduced a breaking change for
> everybody who uses libfdt, or are we using it wrongly?

Everybody who copies and changes a header from the original distribution 
and uses this now instead of the installed version ;-)

libfdt (or better: dtc) seems to be quite out of date in the official 
distribution packages. I just happened to have git HEAD installed manually.

Regards,
Andre.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-07 12:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-07 12:36 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] fdt: update embedded header file from upstream to fix compilation Andre Przywara
2013-05-07 12:44 ` Peter Maydell
2013-05-07 12:52   ` Andre Przywara [this message]
2013-05-07 13:24     ` Peter Maydell
2013-05-07 14:00       ` Andre Przywara

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