Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add dtc.

[Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>]

On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 16:53:10 +0200
David Craven <david@craven.ch> wrote:

> I made some stylistic changes, updated the license, updated to 1.4.1,
> removed the patches (checked the arch package and the nixos package,
> both don't patch dtc)
> 
> I forgot to add u-boot.scm to local.mk...
> 
> Danny, WDYT? Is it an improvement?

Back then, I cut it down to two patches only: one to build the documentation (just nice to have) and one to add "fdt_first_subnode" and "fdt_next_subnode" to the exports so you can actually traverse device trees yourself. That's necessary because they use a version script that defaults everything to local (exports nothing but their listed symbols).

While I almost always look up documentation online, the latter patch is kinda important. Debian patches it still.

So I'd include these two patches only. I'm not sure why they don't make a new release with this fix.

The name "device-tree-compiler" was also from Debian - they renamed it from "dtc" due to naming conflict. There's also a dtc bundled with the Linux kernel. So I'm fine with either name.