From: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] fdt: fix out of tree builds with DT support
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:11:22 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F907F7A.2040600@wwwdotorg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120419183816.28A88202B35@gemini.denx.de>
On 04/19/2012 12:38 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Simon Glass,
>
> In message <CAPnjgZ2-kzLW2-WdBk2qmezurJBPzT1vAHnxrf7RHZ_Xfw6YbA@mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>>
>> Fair enough. I hope that doesn't preclude us from using new features
>> for too long.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Most distributions appear to pick up such changes not too fast, so we
> may run into issues here and there. I think we should decide this on
> a case by case base - here it was a trivial change to the existing
> code that fixed the problem.
The kernel deals with this by packaging a copy of dtc (the source) as
part of the kernel source tree. Then, it can upgrade to new features as
soon as they're needed without any distro dependency.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-19 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-19 12:36 [U-Boot] [PATCH] fdt: fix out of tree builds with DT support Wolfgang Denk
2012-04-19 14:20 ` Simon Glass
2012-04-19 18:27 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-04-19 18:31 ` Simon Glass
2012-04-19 18:38 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-04-19 21:11 ` Stephen Warren [this message]
2012-04-20 2:47 ` Simon Glass
2012-04-21 14:47 ` Wolfgang Denk
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