Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] FDT as a git submodule?

2013-01-28 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, This really is more of a distro problem than a QEMU one. If your distro doesn't package libfdt, chances are quite good it just sucks. Or just a little older. Packaging dtc + libfdt is a pretty recent thing, many not-that-recent distros don't have it. The libfdt installed on the rhel6

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] FDT as a git submodule?

2013-01-28 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 28/01/2013 09:37, Gerd Hoffmann ha scritto: Hi, This really is more of a distro problem than a QEMU one. If your distro doesn't package libfdt, chances are quite good it just sucks. Or just a little older. Packaging dtc + libfdt is a pretty recent thing, many not-that-recent distros

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] FDT as a git submodule?

2013-01-28 Thread Alexander Graf
On 01/27/2013 03:34 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: Alexander Grafag...@suse.de writes: Am 26.01.2013 um 19:13 schrieb Peter Crosthwaitepeter.crosthwa...@xilinx.com: Hi All, On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Peter Maydellpeter.mayd...@linaro.org wrote: On 26 January 2013 10:11, Andreas

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] FDT as a git submodule?

2013-01-28 Thread Peter Maydell
On 28 January 2013 08:58, Alexander Graf ag...@suse.de wrote: Peter, could you please cook up a patch to * build libfdt/dtc from a git submodule if it's not found in the system and * make libfdt mandatory for at least PPC ...with an in-tree submodule I don't see much value in the

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] FDT as a git submodule?

2013-01-28 Thread Alexander Graf
On 01/28/2013 10:28 AM, Peter Maydell wrote: On 28 January 2013 08:58, Alexander Grafag...@suse.de wrote: Peter, could you please cook up a patch to * build libfdt/dtc from a git submodule if it's not found in the system and * make libfdt mandatory for at least PPC ...with an in-tree

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] FDT as a git submodule?

2013-01-27 Thread Anthony Liguori
Alexander Graf ag...@suse.de writes: Am 26.01.2013 um 19:13 schrieb Peter Crosthwaite peter.crosthwa...@xilinx.com: Hi All, On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Peter Maydell peter.mayd...@linaro.org wrote: On 26 January 2013 10:11, Andreas Färber afaer...@suse.de wrote: You forget that a

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] FDT as a git submodule?

2013-01-26 Thread Alexander Graf
Am 26.01.2013 um 03:05 schrieb Peter Crosthwaite peter.crosthwa...@xilinx.com: Hi All, For us CONFIG_FDT is compulsory, we cannot build a sensible QEMU without it. To make the build for us a little more user friendly could we add it as a git submodule the same way as its handled for

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] FDT as a git submodule?

2013-01-26 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 26.01.2013 10:13, schrieb Alexander Graf: Am 26.01.2013 um 03:05 schrieb Peter Crosthwaite peter.crosthwa...@xilinx.com: For us CONFIG_FDT is compulsory, we cannot build a sensible QEMU without it. To make the build for us a little more user friendly could we add it as a git submodule

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] FDT as a git submodule?

2013-01-26 Thread Peter Maydell
On 26 January 2013 10:11, Andreas Färber afaer...@suse.de wrote: You forget that a distro is pretty much a Linux concept. There is no such thing on W32 (openSUSE doesn't package it for MinGW either), and on Darwin the various competing ports systems suck IMO. On OpenBSD there's a dtc port but

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] FDT as a git submodule?

2013-01-26 Thread Peter Crosthwaite
Hi All, On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Peter Maydell peter.mayd...@linaro.org wrote: On 26 January 2013 10:11, Andreas Färber afaer...@suse.de wrote: You forget that a distro is pretty much a Linux concept. There is no such thing on W32 (openSUSE doesn't package it for MinGW either), and on

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] FDT as a git submodule?

2013-01-26 Thread Alexander Graf
Am 26.01.2013 um 19:13 schrieb Peter Crosthwaite peter.crosthwa...@xilinx.com: Hi All, On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Peter Maydell peter.mayd...@linaro.org wrote: On 26 January 2013 10:11, Andreas Färber afaer...@suse.de wrote: You forget that a distro is pretty much a Linux concept.

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] FDT as a git submodule?

2013-01-25 Thread Peter Crosthwaite
Hi All, For us CONFIG_FDT is compulsory, we cannot build a sensible QEMU without it. To make the build for us a little more user friendly could we add it as a git submodule the same way as its handled for pixman? By default FDT is not enable, but if at configure stage you specify --enable-fdt and