Hi Stephen, On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Stephen Warren <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/19/2012 12:38 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: >> Dear Simon Glass, >> >> In message >> <capnjgz2-kzlw2-wdbk2qmezurjbpzt1vahnxrf7rhz_xfw6...@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.
Yes, I noticed that. Another argument is that U-Boot / Linux shouldn't have anything to do with building device tree files, and therefore the tools are Someone Else's Problem - the flashing / packaging tools should do it. I don't really have an opinion on this yet. Given the speed that dtc moves at, perhaps this is a problem we can live with for now. Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
