Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] Include and build libfdt

[Edgar E. Iglesias]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 08:27:30PM +0100, Paul Brook wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 June 2009, Glauber Costa wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 06:38:12PM +0100, Paul Brook wrote:
> > > Inlcude libfdt in source tree, and build it if not already available.
> >
> > what makes libfdt different than everything else that we link with?
> > Why do we have to have a in-tree copy of that?
> 
> AFAIK libfdt is still absent from current releases of common mainstream 
> distros[1], and qemu is going to become increasingly useless without it.
> 
> c.f. dtc where we use the system version.
> 
> Paul
> 
> [1] We can argue about what constitutes sufficiently wide acceptance, but 
> IMHO 
> Fedora, Ubuntu and Debian Sid would be a fairly good start.

With the microblaze port, one of the main issues I get complaints about
is missing libfdt. We have a dynamic fdt driven board off-tree and
a static board in mainline but both really depend on libfdt to be
useful.

Pretty much everybody has to download dtc and install the libs from
there.

It could be that we have looked for the wrong distro packages but if
not, it's missing on the above mentioned distros + gentoo.

FWIW though, I'd like to see libfdt in qemu as a temporary thing
until libfdt is more widespread.

Cheers