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Date:      Sun, 25 Oct 2015 09:49:13 +1100
From:      George Abdelmalik <gabdelmalik@uniridge.com.au>
To:        Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dtc(1): reproducible segmentation fault
Message-ID:  <20151024224913.GA5266@barney.uniridge.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <1445618437.91534.13.camel@freebsd.org>
References:  <562A3FE5.8020809@uniridge.com.au> <F6FF4D7B-C380-4410-8A4D-6E376DF76C7D@gmail.com> <1445618437.91534.13.camel@freebsd.org>

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On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 10:40:37AM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote:
> 
> Don't cc me.  I looked at the in-tree dtc code once and decided it's
> too flawed to try to maintain, and it supports only a subset of the
> full dts syntax.  That's why we switched back to using the gnu dtc for
> buildkernel.  But I just discovered that for some reason gnu is not the
> copy of dtc that gets installed, it's just the one that gets used
> during a buildkernel.
> 
> So basically if you do 'dtc -v' and the result is 0.4.0, that's too
> limited to compile modern dts files, and if the result is 1.4.0 that's
> the gnu dtc that should work fine, and if it doesn't we probably need
> to report the problem upstream.
> 
> -- Ian
> 

Thanks Ian,

The GPL dtc worked fine. I was actually wanting to compiler the in-tree
zedbaord.dts file. I'd successfully done it some time back in June but must
have been using the GPL dtc without realising it.

George.


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