[PATCH] dtc.bset: update to 1.4.1 to match qemu

Gedare Bloom gedare at rtems.org
Thu Aug 15 15:24:59 UTC 2019


FWIW: I had to build dtc by hand recently. It might be worth it to
work up an RSB script for host tooling to help users/developers work
with DT.

On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 5:40 PM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 6:02 PM Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org> wrote:
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>> On 15/8/19 8:50 am, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>> > On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 5:27 PM Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org> wrote:
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>> >> On 15/8/19 8:08 am, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>> >>> qemu-couverture.bset explicitly has 1.4.1.
>> >>
>> >> OK.
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>> >>> qemu.bset doesn't list dtc at all. No idea why not.
>> >>
>> >> Because you cannot build dtc on MinGW and I doubt you ever will be able to. Here
>> >> the MSYS2 package is used. I cannot remember the specifics.
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>> >>> But qemu-git-1.cfg has a dtc submodule of qemu pulled out of git so I
>> >>> guess qemu.bset is implicitly getting that.
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>> >> Yes, qemu's release cycle did not carry changes we needed.
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>> >>> Clear as mud to me.
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>> >> Be careful here because it a rather deep hole and time consuming to get all this
>> >> to work on all hosts. The qemu.bset did build on all hosts we support at one
>> >> point in time.
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>> > Should I punt and use the native provided dtc? Or try to build it by hand as a
>> > singleton using the RSB?
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>> > I think updating to 1.4.1 vs 1.2 is OK but am happy to drop it from
>> > the qemu set.
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>> Yeap.
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>> > But we can defer this and I will try dtc 1.2 as an RSB singleton, then host DTC.
>> > It is needed by spike.
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>> I do not know as I cannot remember the specific now and things may have changed.
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>> Maybe add it and then try and see what breaks?
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> I'll take the baby step of building it from the rsb manually until we get all the testing hosts online.
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>> Chris
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