On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 11:24 -0600, Jerone Young wrote: > > > However, why do we need libfdt? Is it not carried by distros, or do > you > > need to make changes? > > Well it actually isn't distributed with each distro .. sigh .. > actually > this comes from a tool called dtc, compiles/decompiles a device tree. > Even the linux kernel has it's own version of libfdt ... so it's not > exactly a central coordinated effort. It's something that kind of gets > passed from project to project but never stand alone. So we kind of > have > to do the same.
It is a centrally co-ordinated effort, but it is not a package a distro would carry. It is code shared by anything that needs to load a PowerPC Linux kernel, for example: the kernel bootwrapper (part of the Linux source tree), u-boot firmware, Xend, and now qemu. Accordingly, a libfdt.rpm simply doesn't make sense, and the code is intended to be copied into any codebase that needs it. -- Hollis Blanchard IBM Linux Technology Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
