Re: NetBSD and libfdt

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 25/01/2023 12.36, Nick Hudson wrote:
> hi,
> 
> On 24/01/2023 11:27, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> On 24/01/2023 10.20, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> [...]
>>>>>>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 12:31 PM Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>     Hi all,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> in some spare minutes, I started playing with a patch to try to 
>>>>>>>> remove the
>>>>>>>> dtc submodule from the QEMU git repository - according to
>>>>>>>> https://repology.org/project/dtc/versions our supported build platforms
>>>>>>>> should now all provide the minimum required version.
>> [...]
>>> Ok, I'll give my patch another try to see whether all the other systems 
>>> have a usable version of libfdt available, too.
>>
>> ... and I apparently missed NetBSD in my first research: Looks like NetBSD 
>> is still using dtc v1.4.7 which is too old for QEMU. (though 
>> https://www.netbsd.org/docs/software/3rdparty/ talks about v1.5.1, I only 
>> get dtc 1.4.7 in our NetBSD VM).
> 
> The not yet released netbsd-10 and -current have 1.5.1. Perhaps you can use 
> netbsd-10 for your VM?

Ah, ok, thanks, I didn't know yet that NetBSD 10 is just about to get 
released (hopefully?) soon...
Anyway, even if it gets released this year, it means we have to carry the 
dtc submodule in QEMU for two more years according to our support policy:

 
https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/about/build-platforms.html#linux-os-macos-freebsd-netbsd-openbsd

(since NetBSD will be supported by QEMU for two more years)

Will there be another minor release of NetBSD 9 where it would be possible 
to update dtc to at least version 1.5.1, too?

  Thanks,
   Thomas