Hi Stephen,
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Stephen Warren swarren@wwwdotorg.org wrote:
On 04/19/2012 12:38 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
Dear Simon Glass,
In message CAPnjgZ2-kzLW2-WdBk2qmezurJBPzT1vAHnxrf7RHZ_Xfw6YbA@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