We've moved to the 4.1.x kernels in our products so it seems we are largely
unaffected.  Thanks for the clarification.
On Feb 24, 2016 7:13 AM, "Robert Nelson" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Brian Adams <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Robert,
> >
> > When you say it will break building external dtd on target, does that
> imply
> > that dtd building will need to be done during image builds?  Not sure
> what
> > was meant by that sentence.
>
> Hi Brian,
>
> So right now, we have 2 versions of dtc installed by default..
>
> The current package "device-tree-compiler" -> /usr/bin/dtc
>
> Which only works for 3.8.x based kernel overlay's..  (these *.dtbo
> overlays will not load on v4.1.x+ based kernel's due to internal
> overlay changes)..
>
> For v4.1.x kernel's we ship a patched dtc at /usr/local/bin/dtc
>
> Which only works on 4.1.x+ kernel's (they won't load on 3.8.x kernel's)
>
> What i want to do, is essentially, remove the old dtc and ship only
> the 4.1.x-dtc as "/usr/bin/dtc"
>
> and then package the "bb.org-overlays".
>
> This only affects users who build a custom *.dtbo on target, there's
> nothing stopping you from building on an external machine and copying
> over, or using this script:
>
> https://github.com/RobertCNelson/tools/blob/master/pkgs/dtc.sh
>
> to add back the "3.8.x-dtc"...
>
> Regards,
>
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> Robert Nelson
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