Re: [PATCH] RFC: build-sys: drop dtc submodule

[David Gibson]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 12:11:17AM +0400, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 12:00 AM Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 25 Aug 2021 at 20:55, Marc-André Lureau
> > <marcandre.lureau@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > fdt_check_full was added in 1.4.7:
> > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dtc/dtc.git/tag/?h=v1.4.7
> > >
> > > Only ubuntu appears to be lagging a bit behind. I wonder if they would
> > consider an update.
> >
> > I doubt it. You would need to wait until that actually falls off
> > our supported list. You also have a couple of years to wait until
> > Debian oldstable is no longer on our supported list.
> >
> > Maybe, I don't know why debian oldstable would have received a new version
> plus fixes, and not ubuntu.
> 
> It seems we could have our own fallback copy of fdt_check_full() though..
> I'll give that a try.

We could, but fdt_check_full() is actually a pretty complex function.

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