[PATCH 1/1] Fix segfault in DTC
Stephen Warren
swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Sat Sep 29 05:05:33 EST 2012
On 09/28/2012 12:53 PM, Jon Loeliger wrote:
>>>
>>> Yeah, seems like the kernel DTC is quite old.
>>
>> FYI, I'm working on a patch to the kernel to bring in the latest dtc.
>
> Awesome. Thank you.
>
>> I've run a regression test vs. the old dtc in the kernel ...
>
> Which is the icky step. Again, thank you.
>
>> ... and found that
>> some of the PowerPC .dts files don't compile with the new dtc (but did
>> with the old), all due to non-existent labels/paths being referenced.
>> I'll try and track down whether this is a regression in dtc, or simply
>> buggy .dts files that weren't noticed before.
>
> I think you should just smack the PowerPC guys. :-)
For the record in this thread, it was a regression I introduced into dtc
- the patch I just sent was for this.
>> Everything non-PowerPC works fine, and most PowerPC files work fine.
>> Where compilation succeeds, the md5sum of the .dtb is identical in every
>> case.
... and with that patch, every .dts in the kernel compiles to the same
md5sum before/after.
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