Re: [Qemu-devel] [6064] Implement device tree support needed for Bamboo emulation

["Blue Swirl" <blauwirbel@gmail.com>]

On 12/16/08, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 December 2008, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>  > Hollis Blanchard wrote:
>  > > If you'd prefer to make libfdt mandatory, I'm fine with that.
>  >
>  > No, it shouldn't be mandatory :-)
>  >
>  > >>> This patch introduces a dependency on libfdt for flat device tree
>  > >>> support.
>  > >>
>  > >> I don't like the way this is done.
>  > >>
>  > >> AFAIK libfdt isn't present in any of the major distros. I thought the
>  > >> conclusion was that we should import libfdt into qemu.
>  > >
>  > > That was our conclusion, but Anthony never agreed.
>  >
>  > Because it's better to let the distros maintain this.   That way, they
>  > can deal with security issues, etc.
>
>
> That's fine in theory. In practice it means we can't realistically use libfdt
>  for anything important for at least another 12 months or so. I'm also rather
>  sceptical about the stability of the libfdt API.

I also vote for importing libfdt for now, it should be useful for Sparc too.

If one day the major distros (think also about BSDs, Solaris etc.)
have libfdt, we can remove ours.