Hi Peter, On 21 June 2017 at 01:07, Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> Simon, do you have some suggestions on what to do here? Thanks! >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Tom >>>> >>>> My guess is that there is already a libfdt.py in the system. Someone >>>> else reported this too. >>>> >>>> We could perhaps change the ordering in PYTHONPATH so that our one is >>>> first. >>> >>> No, I'm not sure that's completely the case because I first saw a >>> related issue before my dtc had the python patch set added to it, I >>> would actually prefer to build with the distro dtc rather than a fork >>> of upstream like we use to. >> >> OK I think I see what is happening then. It seems to be picking up >> _libfdt.so from your system and libfdy.py from U-Boot. If so that >> seems like a bad idea at the best of times. >> >> Despite upstreaming efforts we still have local libfdt changes in >> U-Boot. The main one is fdtgrep. I did try to upstream it a while back >> but failed. I've been thinking of trying again but have not mustered >> the energy. >> >> This particular error could probably be worked around in the short >> term by dropping FDT_ERR_TOODEEP. But do we really want to allow this >> sort of thing? I think we should either use one libfdt module or the >> other, not a mixture of the two > > I suspect your right but I don't want to get into a situation where > something might work in the kernel and and not in u-boot or > vice-versa, and as things like overlays come into play where they > could be applied to either the possible differences get greater and > from a distro PoV that increased the requirements of support and debug > and believe me people will do weird shit that they expect you to > magically fix with little information hence my reluctance to diverge.
I'm not sure what to do about this other than what I suggested. I wonder it if is possible to detect the case where there is a mismatch with the installation? Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot
