Hi

On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 7:11 AM David Gibson <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 12:11:17AM +0400, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 12:00 AM Peter Maydell <[email protected]
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 25 Aug 2021 at 20:55, Marc-André Lureau
> > > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > fdt_check_full was added in 1.4.7:
> > > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dtc/dtc.git/tag/?h=v1.4.7
> > > >
> > > > Only ubuntu appears to be lagging a bit behind. I wonder if they
> would
> > > consider an update.
> > >
> > > I doubt it. You would need to wait until that actually falls off
> > > our supported list. You also have a couple of years to wait until
> > > Debian oldstable is no longer on our supported list.
> > >
> > > Maybe, I don't know why debian oldstable would have received a new
> version
> > plus fixes, and not ubuntu.
> >
> > It seems we could have our own fallback copy of fdt_check_full() though..
> > I'll give that a try.
>
> We could, but fdt_check_full() is actually a pretty complex function.
>
>
Yeah, that would be used for those who don't have >= 1.4.7.

Alternatively we could lower the fdt_check_full to fdt_check_header in this
case? It seems it is used to verify the DT from SLOF. It may be trusted I
suppose, or a malformed DT may only impact the guest?


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