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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] Include and build libfdt


From: Paul Brook
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] Include and build libfdt
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:27:30 +0100
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On Wednesday 10 June 2009, Glauber Costa wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 06:38:12PM +0100, Paul Brook wrote:
> > Inlcude libfdt in source tree, and build it if not already available.
>
> what makes libfdt different than everything else that we link with?
> Why do we have to have a in-tree copy of that?

AFAIK libfdt is still absent from current releases of common mainstream 
distros[1], and qemu is going to become increasingly useless without it.

c.f. dtc where we use the system version.

Paul

[1] We can argue about what constitutes sufficiently wide acceptance, but IMHO 
Fedora, Ubuntu and Debian Sid would be a fairly good start.




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