Re: [kvm-devel] Top level kvm-userspace directory getting crowded ... need new dir for qemu dependencies

[Hollis B. <ho...@us...>]

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